You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.309,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not clear which skills the changed-file search applies to, since a further condition decides when it runs.
What
A skill is a packaged set of instructions Claude Code can run. When you invoke a skill, Claude Code now first searches the files that have changed for skills nested inside them. It then checks whether a version of the skill scoped to a particular folder applies. That check now runs when either of two skill lists has entries. Before, it stopped when the first list was empty and did not search changed files at all.
If the search fails, Claude Code logs "[skills] Changed files not searched for nested skills" and carries on.
Why
Versions of a skill that belong to a specific folder are found more reliably, including ones in files that changed during the session.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear which skills the changed-file search applies to, since a further condition decides when it runs.
