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Claude Code v2.1.222 ·

Skill refusal message tells the model not to work around it

Skills you mark as user-only now tell Claude not to reimplement them by hand.

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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.222,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

When the model tries to invoke a skill marked as user-only, the returned error now appends an explicit instruction against achieving the same thing another way.

Details
  • Applies to skills with disable-model-invocation set.
  • The added sentence closes the loophole of the model reading the skill and re-implementing its steps by hand.
Evidence

Do not replicate this skill's workflow by other means

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

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Names in the bundledisable-model-invocation
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Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved the refusal when Claude tries to invoke a skill with disable-model-invocation: Claude is now told to ask you to run the skill…

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