{"version":"2.1.208","anchor":"mcp-archive-skill-distribution-removed","canonical_anchor":"mcp-archive-skill-distribution-removed","heading":"MCP archive skill distribution removed","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.208\/e\/mcp-archive-skill-distribution-removed","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.208","markdown":"### MCP archive skill distribution removed\n\nMCP skills can no longer be distributed as `.tar.gz` or `.zip` archives via the `mcp-skill-archive:` URI scheme. The entire archive download, extraction, validation, and caching pipeline has been removed.\n\nIf you were distributing skills this way, you must now distribute them as direct MCP server resources or as local directory skills. Skills already cached from previous versions may remain on disk in the extraction directory but will no longer be updated or loaded.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nAll tar\/zip archive parsing functions removed (search for `\"mcp-skill-archive:\"`, `\"Downloading skill archive from\"` \u2014 these strings are absent from v2.1.208)"}