{"version":"2.1.265","anchor":"plugin-skills-are-now-de-duplicated-against-user-level-skill","canonical_anchor":"plugin-skills-are-now-de-duplicated-against-user-level-skill","heading":"Plugin skills are now de-duplicated against user-level skills and other plugins by real path","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265\/e\/plugin-skills-are-now-de-duplicated-against-user-level-skill","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.265","markdown":"### Plugin skills are now de-duplicated against user-level skills and other plugins by real path\n\nPlugin skills are now skipped if the same skill already exists at the user level or in another plugin\n\n**What**\n\nWhen 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis 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.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}