{"version":"2.1.292","anchor":"skill-proposal-requires-non-empty-skillmd","canonical_anchor":"skill-proposal-requires-non-empty-skillmd","heading":"Proposed skills must include instructions","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292\/e\/skill-proposal-requires-non-empty-skillmd","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.292","markdown":"### Proposed skills must include instructions\n\nClaude can no longer propose a skill whose SKILL.md file has no instructions, and is told to resend the complete file\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a set of instructions Claude can use for a particular task, written in a file called `SKILL.md`. When Claude proposes a skill for you to review, Claude Code now checks the proposed file. A file with no instructions is rejected, and Claude is told to send the complete file again and not to propose deleting the skill.\n\nBefore, the proposed file was not checked.\n\n**Why**\n\nAn empty skill file could not be saved from the review card, the panel where you look over a proposed skill. The check stops such a proposal reaching you.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}