{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"host-skill-catalog-filter-in-skill-loader","canonical_anchor":"host-skill-catalog-filter-in-skill-loader","heading":"Skills can be limited to a catalog supplied by the host","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/host-skill-catalog-filter-in-skill-loader","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Skills can be limited to a catalog supplied by the host\n\nClaude Code's skill loader can take a catalog and then load only the skill folders it lists that contain a SKILL.md file\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear how a catalog is supplied, so whether a reader can use this is unknown.\n\n**What**\n\nSkills are packaged instructions Claude Code can load to handle particular tasks. The part of Claude Code that loads them can now be given a catalog, which is a list of skills. When it is, Claude Code loads only the skill folders in that catalog, and only those that contain a `SKILL.md` file. Skills loaded this way are marked as coming from the host's catalog.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis lets the program hosting Claude Code decide which skills are available.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}