What
- Skills that come from account sync (claude.ai) can now be referenced and stored under a namespaced key like
anthropic-skills:<name>. A helper strips this prefix when looking the skill up, and a synced skill whose bare (short) name collides with a local or plugin command is no longer simply dropped — it stays usable under its namespaced name. - When Claude Code builds its
/contextinventory of tools and skills, a synced skill's bare/unqualified name is no longer treated as claiming that name slot, so it can't silently take over an unqualified name that a locally defined skill or command also uses. - Name matching for tools and skills now handles synced skills as a special case: instead of using the generic name-suffix matching heuristic, it matches against the skill's own declared aliases.
Why
Before this, a skill synced from your claude.ai account could quietly take over a name also used by a skill or command defined locally, either shadowing it or getting dropped outright. Namespacing synced skills and changing how their names are matched means both the synced version and a same-named local skill or command can coexist and be referenced correctly.
Names in the bundleanthropic-skills:
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up anthropic-skills:, on Extend Claude with skills.
| Any of the above and a skill [synced from your claude.ai account](#how-synced-skills-behave) | The other skill or command. The synced skill still runs as `/anthropic-skills:<name>`. See [When a synced skill name matches another command](…skills see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up anthropic-skills:, on Extend Claude with skills.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Changed skills synced from claude.ai in cloud sessions to be named anthropic-skills:<name>, matching Claude Desktop; the bare name still…