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Claude Code v2.1.217

Skills Discovery Migrated to skills/list Paginated Method

MCP servers providing skills no longer need to expose a skill://index.json resource. The discovery protocol has changed to use a standard skills/list MCP method that supports cursor-based pagination.

Changes:

  • Old: MCP server exposes skill://index.json resource with a JSON index of skills (URL-based)
  • New: MCP server implements the skills/list method, returning pages of skills with uri fields and optional digest and nextCursor
  • Pagination is handled automatically — Claude Code iterates until all pages are fetched or limits are reached
  • Dropped entries are logged: "N skills/list entries skipped (malformed, missing, or oversized fields)"
  • If a page fails mid-pagination, already-fetched entries are used and a warning is logged

If you operate an MCP server that provides skills, update it from the resource-based index to the skills/list method.

Evidence

New discovery function (search for "skills/list failed") and old discovery removed (search for "skill://index.json" — now gone)

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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