{"version":"2.1.228","anchor":"skills-synced-from-claude-ai-keep-out-of-the-way-of-your-loc","canonical_anchor":"skills-synced-from-claude-ai-keep-out-of-the-way-of-your-loc","heading":"Skills synced from claude.ai keep out of the way of your local ones","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.228\/e\/skills-synced-from-claude-ai-keep-out-of-the-way-of-your-loc","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.228","markdown":"### Skills synced from claude.ai keep out of the way of your local ones\n\nSkills synced from claude.ai are skipped when their name, path or alias collides with your local skill.\n\n**What**\n\nSkills pulled down from claude.ai are now checked against your local skills before loading. If a synced skill's name, folder path or any of its aliases matches one a local skill already claims, the synced copy is dropped and the local one wins.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Synced skill names containing a colon, or starting with `mcp__`, are refused outright.\n- Favoriting a synced skill stores it under its own `synced-skill:` key, falling back to the plain `skill:` key so existing favorites keep working.\n- The reminder about skills you have loaded but never used now has a separate line for synced skills, and points out that deleting a synced skill locally just brings it back on the next sync.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`synced from claude.ai loaded but never invoked`\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}