Unclear It was not ruled out that some other part of Claude Code sets this option.
What
Claude Code now has an internal option to write and read the files of its bundled skills from a different location. Bundled skills are the skills that ship with Claude Code. The option is never set in this build, so those files stay in their usual local place.
Why
For now this changes nothing about how skills behave.
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It was not ruled out that some other part of Claude Code sets this option.