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Claude Code v2.1.265 ·

Plugin skills are now de-duplicated against user-level skills and other plugins by real path

Plugin skills are now skipped if the same skill already exists at the user level or in another plugin

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KindBug Fixesin v2.1.265,
You'll notice

Plugin skills are now skipped if the same skill already exists at the user level or in another plugin

What

When Claude Code loads skills (packaged instructions for a particular kind of task) bundled inside a plugin, it now checks whether that same skill file, resolved to its real underlying file path, is already loaded either as a personal user-level skill or by another plugin. If so, the duplicate is skipped rather than loaded twice, and a log message names which duplicate was skipped and why.

Why

This avoids the same skill appearing more than once when it's reachable through multiple paths, such as a symlink, which previously could have caused confusing duplicate entries.

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