You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.224,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
A new docs section describes loading skills from a mounted repository's root .claude/skills directory. Skills are discovered once per session from the code as it stood when the session started, and this works in cloud sandboxes only, not self-hosted.
Details
Carries an explicit warning that repository skills are agent instructions running inside your trust boundary, so anyone who can commit to the repo can change agent behaviour.
Evidence
Skills from a GitHub repository
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.