Clearer guidance when Claude tries to improve a skill that is not listed
If Claude proposes improving a skill that isn't listed because it was proposed as new and never saved, it is told to resubmit it as new under the same name
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.317,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A skill is a saved set of instructions Claude can use for a kind of task. When Claude proposes an improvement to a skill that is not currently listed, the message it gets back now adds a case. If that skill was proposed as new earlier and never saved, Claude should call again with kind "new" under the same name. Before, it was only told to try once more and then tell you if the skill was still missing.
Why
This stops skill proposals from ending at a dead end when the skill simply was never saved.
