{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"mod-skill-description-rewritten","canonical_anchor":"mod-skill-description-rewritten","heading":"The mod-making skill now covers slash commands and more","tier":"notice","area":"Mods","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/mod-skill-description-rewritten","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### The mod-making skill now covers slash commands and more\n\nThe mod-making skill's description now covers any change to Claude's own interface or behaviour, including slash commands\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the mod-making skill is available to every user is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a set of instructions Claude can choose to use for a certain kind of request, and Claude decides when to use one by reading its description. The description of the mod-making skill has been rewritten. It now covers any change to Claude's own interface or behaviour, such as:\n\n- a live pane or panel\n\n- a band above the prompt\n\n- a status line\n\n- a toast (a short pop-up notice)\n\n- a slash command\n\n- a hook on tool calls or prompts, which is code that runs when Claude uses a tool or you send a prompt\n\nBefore, it was limited to a pane, band, status line, toast or hook, and mentioned the desktop Code tab.\n\n**Why**\n\nWith a broader description, Claude will reach for this skill for more requests, such as asking for a new slash command.\n\n- Area: Mods\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}