{"version":"2.1.317","anchor":"skill-update-guidance-in-tool-message-expanded","canonical_anchor":"skill-update-guidance-in-tool-message-expanded","heading":"Clearer guidance when Claude tries to improve a skill that is not listed","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317\/e\/skill-update-guidance-in-tool-message-expanded","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317","markdown":"### Clearer guidance when Claude tries to improve a skill that is not listed\n\nIf 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\n\n**What**\n\nA 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis stops skill proposals from ending at a dead end when the skill simply was never saved.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}