{"version":"2.1.282","anchor":"skills-sync-interval-is-now-remote-configurable-retry-backo","canonical_anchor":"remote-tunable-claudeai-skills-sync-resync-interval-and-a-n","heading":"claude.ai skills sync interval becomes server-configurable, with a new shared-round mode","tier":"soon","area":"Skills","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282\/e\/skills-sync-interval-is-now-remote-configurable-retry-backo","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282","markdown":"### claude.ai skills sync interval becomes server-configurable, with a new shared-round mode\n\nThe claude.ai skills sync interval and retry backoff are now set remotely, and a new shared-round mode lets sessions reuse each other's skill listings\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what the second skills sync setting does when it is switched on.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code periodically checks claude.ai for your skills and syncs them. Two new flags now control that check. A flag here is a setting Anthropic's servers can change without a new version of Claude Code being released.\n\n- `tengu_claudeai_skills_sync_interval_minutes` sets how often the resync runs. With no server value it falls back to 10 minutes. Any server value is held between 5 and 1440 minutes (once a day).\n\n- The wait between retries after a failed sync (the backoff) is now capped at 4\u00d7 that interval. It used to be a fixed 10-minute base with a 40-minute cap.\n\n- `tengu_claudeai_skills_sync_shared_round` falls back to false. When it is on, a session can reuse a recent skills listing that another Claude Code session fetched for the same bucket instead of asking claude.ai again. The session reloads when the shared generation token (a marker that changes when the shared listing changes) moves. It then schedules its next resync for the interval plus a random 30 to 90 seconds.\n\n- The existing `skills_sync_round_reused` log line is now written from this new sharing path. Before, it came from a simpler check that reused a recent listing.\n\nFor `tengu_claudeai_skills_sync_shared_round`, the flag server returned off for this site's account and for an anonymous baseline, but no reading has been taken under this release. Nothing has been read yet about `tengu_claudeai_skills_sync_interval_minutes`.\n\n**Why**\n\nWith the fallback values, skills sync behaves as it did before: every 10 minutes, with retries capped at 40 minutes. The server can now change how often every client checks claude.ai for skills, as rarely as once a day. It can also turn on sharing of sync rounds between sessions, which would mean fewer repeated listings when several sessions are open. Either change can happen without a Claude Code update.\n\n- Flag `tengu_claudeai_skills_sync_shared_round`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.282; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}