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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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What

The schema descriptions for the plugin skills field document that a path of "." or "./" points at the plugin root itself.

Details
  • 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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Names in the bundleskills.
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Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged 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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