{"version":"2.1.269","anchor":"synced-skills-now-get-namespaced-under-an-anthropic-skills","canonical_anchor":"synced-skills-no-longer-counted-for-bareunqualified-name-ma","heading":"Synced skills namespaced to avoid colliding with local skill or command names","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269\/e\/synced-skills-now-get-namespaced-under-an-anthropic-skills","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269","markdown":"### Synced skills namespaced to avoid colliding with local skill or command names\n\nSkills synced from claude.ai are now namespaced under anthropic-skills: so they stop silently overriding or being blocked by local skills and commands with the same short name\n\n**What**\n\n- 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 \u2014 it stays usable under its namespaced name.\n\n- When Claude Code builds its `\/context` inventory 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.\n\n- 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nBefore 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.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Names: `anthropic-skills:`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}