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Claude Code v2.1.242

Skill prose rewritten with ASCII punctuation

Under the hood
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Skills

Several skill texts swapped fancy punctuation for plain ASCII; nothing behaves differently for you.

What

The design-sync, doc, whiteboard and workshop skill bodies now use ASCII punctuation in the text fed to the model: em dashes become -, arrows become ->, <= replaces the math symbol, ... replaces the ellipsis, and the doc skill's save hint says Ctrl/Cmd+S instead of the command glyph.

Details
  • The count of escaped em dashes across the bundle falls from 9,495 to 7,326, and most survivors sit in the doc template's CSS comments, so this is a pass over skill markdown rather than a bundle-wide sweep.
  • No instruction changes meaning.
Evidence

the toolbar shows unsaved changes until they click Save (or press Ctrl/Cmd+S)

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

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