{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"core-skills-come-from-the-served-policy","canonical_anchor":"core-skills-come-from-the-served-policy","heading":"The list of core skills now comes from Anthropic's server","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/core-skills-come-from-the-served-policy","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### The list of core skills now comes from Anthropic's server\n\nClaude Code now takes its list of core skills from a list sent by Anthropic's server, falling back to the last list it received\n\n**Unclear.** What the checks that empty the list look at is not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nSkills are sets of instructions Claude can use for particular tasks. Claude Code keeps a list of core skills. It now takes that list from a policy sent by Anthropic's server, and uses the last list it received when none arrives. Before, it used a list built into Claude Code. When certain checks fail, the list is empty.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhich skills count as core can now change without a new version of Claude Code.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}