{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"skill-listing-budget-measures-name-length-for-display-name","canonical_anchor":"skill-listing-budget-measures-name-length-for-display-name","heading":"Skill list length now counts each skill's display name","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/skill-listing-budget-measures-name-length-for-display-name","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Skill list length now counts each skill's display name\n\nWhen fitting the skills list into its space limit, Claude Code now counts each skill's displayed name instead of its raw name\n\n**Unclear.** How the display name differs from the raw name is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has a space limit for the list of skills it shows the model. Skills are extra instructions Claude can load for specific tasks. When measuring that list, it now counts the length of each skill's display name rather than its raw name plus two characters.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis may slightly change which skills are cut from the list when it is too long.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}