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Claude is told that skill files on disk are a read-only cache, so editing them won't change your saved skill.
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What
Claude is now told explicitly that skill files on disk, including synced copies of your account skills, are a read-only cache and that editing them does not change the saved skill. Three variants of this guidance exist for different session shapes.
Details
- One variant points at a tool for creating or updating a skill directly, one says to propose the skill with a different tool, and one says to produce a
.skillzip or a singleSKILL.mdand hand it over. - That last variant warns there is no signal about whether you saved the file, so Claude should report the skill as delivered and never as saved.
- A separate fragment carves out plugin-owned skills, which are customizable through their plugin.
- Which variant applies depends on the session type; the selection logic is not part of this change.
Evidence
report the skill as delivered, never as saved
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Related
Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.