Claude Code v2.1.221 · 3 Aug 2026
Plugin manifest skills path may be the plugin root
You can point a plugin's skills entry at "." to use the plugin root itself.
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Improvements Kind: in v2.1.221, 03 Aug 26
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What
The schema descriptions for the plugin skills field document that a path of "." or "./" points at the plugin root itself.
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Documentation-level change to the manifest schema descriptions; no behaviour gate. Evidence
("." / "./" denote the plugin root itself)
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
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Anthropic's release notes agree Changed plugins to accept "." as a skills path, and the root-level SKILL.md validation error now suggests using the plugin root
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Anthropic's note
Upstream's own release notes for v2.1.221 name something this entry names, so the two are probably about the same change. Probably: the pairing is made on a shared name rather than on the words around it.
Changed plugins to accept "." as a skills path, and the root-level SKILL.md validation error now suggests using the plugin root
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