{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"tool-unavailable-note-for-skills","canonical_anchor":"tool-unavailable-note-for-skills","heading":"Claude is told when a skill's tools are not available","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/tool-unavailable-note-for-skills","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### Claude is told when a skill's tools are not available\n\nA new note tells Claude that the tools a skill was written for are unavailable and to carry on with the ones it has\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a packaged set of instructions Claude can follow for a task. Claude Code has a new note telling Claude that the group of tools a skill's guidance is written for is not available right now, that it should not call or load them, and that it should continue with the tools it has.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis stops a skill from steering Claude toward tools it cannot use.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}