{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"skills-sync-live-claim-timeout","canonical_anchor":"skills-sync-live-claim-timeout","heading":"Skill sync from claude.ai no longer waits forever on a stuck download","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/skills-sync-live-claim-timeout","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Skill sync from claude.ai no longer waits forever on a stuck download\n\nIf a skill download looks claimed by another process for too long, skill sync now gives up waiting instead of staying stuck\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can sync skills (reusable instructions and files) from claude.ai. Before downloading a skill, it checks whether another process is already downloading it. Previously, if another process held that claim, Claude Code always treated the download as still in progress.\n\nNow:\n\n- Once the target folder is old enough, a claim held elsewhere times out and Claude Code stops treating it as in progress.\n\n- If a skill file is already held by the target, Claude Code skips the download because it is being handled elsewhere.\n\n**Why**\n\nA claim left behind by a process that stopped could keep a skill from ever syncing. The timeout stops sync from being stuck forever on that kind of stale claim.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}