You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
PluginsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.221,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A skill entry pointing at SKILL.md in the plugin root now gets a useful hint instead of nothing.
Details
Both validators previously only suggested the parent directory when it was not ., leaving the root case with no suggestion.
The same wording was added to the plugin config validator and the marketplace-style validator.
Evidence
— point to the plugin root '.' instead
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Read from
Names in the bundleSKILL.md
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
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
