{"version":"2.1.314","anchor":"skills-watcher-ignores-the-trash-directory","canonical_anchor":"skills-watcher-ignores-the-trash-directory","heading":"Changes inside a skills .trash folder no longer reload your skills","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314\/e\/skills-watcher-ignores-the-trash-directory","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314","markdown":"### Changes inside a skills `.trash` folder no longer reload your skills\n\nClaude Code now ignores a `.trash` folder at the top of your skills folder, so changes there do not trigger a skills reload\n\n**What**\n\nSkills are instruction files that Claude Code loads from your skills folder, and it watches that folder so it can reload them when they change. The watcher now also skips anything inside a `.trash` folder at the top level of the skills folder, so changes there do not trigger a reload. Before, it skipped only `.git` folders and files that were not `.md` files.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf you delete skills by moving them into a trash folder, Claude Code no longer reloads your skills for no reason.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}