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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

Small changes to skills and to shell commands written into prompts

Shell commands in prompts are read differently, skill use is recorded by the skill's name, and a pull request skill no longer takes a proactivity level

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What

Skills are reusable sets of instructions Claude Code can load. Three small changes:

  • Shell commands written into a prompt are now read with a new parser instead of only having spaces trimmed from their ends.
  • When Claude Code records that a skill was used, it now records it under the skill's own name.
  • The prompt for a pull request skill is no longer built with a proactivity level.
Why

These are small changes to how skills and pull request skill prompts behave.

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