You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.299,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The message shown after /reload-skills has new wording. When nothing changed, it now says "none added or removed" instead of "no changes".
When the Skill tool is available (the tool Claude uses to run a skill), the message also says that Claude will get the full list of skills with your next message.
Why
The message now tells you when Claude actually learns about reloaded skills: not immediately, but with the next message you send.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /reload-skills, on Claude Code changelog.* Changed compaction to send Claude the skill list again afterwards; `/reload-skills` now sends only new or changed skillschangelogsee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /reload-skills, on Claude Code changelog.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved /reload-skills to say it re-sends the full skill list to Claude, which is how to get skills back after compaction
