{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"the-claude-ai-skill-prefix-is-dropped-and-plugin-skills-g","canonical_anchor":"the-claude-ai-skill-prefix-is-dropped-and-plugin-skills-g","heading":"The claude-ai: skill prefix is gone and plugin skills gain shorter names","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/the-claude-ai-skill-prefix-is-dropped-and-plugin-skills-g","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### The claude-ai: skill prefix is gone and plugin skills gain shorter names\n\nSkill names starting `claude-ai:` are no longer mapped to `anthropic-skills:`, and plugin skills can now be reached by shorter aliases\n\n**Unclear.** It is not known whether anything still produces `claude-ai:` skill names.\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a named set of instructions Claude can call on, and some skills have more than one name. Claude Code no longer knows about the `claude-ai:` prefix. Only `anthropic-skills` remains, and `claude-ai:` names are no longer translated to or from `anthropic-skills:`.\n\nAt the same time:\n\n- A plugin skill named like `name:name` can now also be called `anthropic-skills:name` or plain `name`, plus any aliases it declares.\n\n- A synced or plugin skill named `anthropic-skills:name` also gains a `name:name` style alias.\n\n**Why**\n\nOld references to a skill as `claude-ai:skill` may stop working, while plugin skills become reachable by shorter names.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Names: `claude-ai:`, `anthropic-skills:`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}