Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.304,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Skills are reusable instructions Claude can load. Claude Code watches the files that define them. When those files changed, it used to compare the skill list before and after and skip announcing it again if nothing had really changed. It now drops that comparison: it updates its record of the skills and passes the change on every time.
It also stops watching early at startup when an extra condition is not met.
Why
In practice, changes to skill files are passed along without the step that filtered out events where the skill list stayed the same.
