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Claude Code v2.1.228 ·

Skill loading refuses to merge synced skills after a local failure

If local skills fail to load, account-synced skills are dropped rather than merged in unchecked.

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What

If your local skill directories or plugin skills fail to load, skills synced from your account are now dropped rather than merged in, because their names cannot be checked for collisions against the ones that failed.

Details
  • The loader result carries a flag set when either the skill-directory or plugin-skill load threw, and set true in the total-failure fallback.
  • The consequence is fewer skills available in that session rather than a silent name clash.
Evidence

local or plugin skills failed to load, so its name cannot be checked against them

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

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