{"version":"2.1.317","anchor":"skill-watcher-uses-a-slower-idle-chokidar-poll-interval","canonical_anchor":"skill-watcher-uses-a-slower-idle-chokidar-poll-interval","heading":"Skill file watching can poll less often while a session is idle","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317\/e\/skill-watcher-uses-a-slower-idle-chokidar-poll-interval","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317","markdown":"### Skill file watching can poll less often while a session is idle\n\nThe watcher that spots changes to skill files now has a separate polling interval for idle sessions, chosen by a feature check\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what decides the idle interval or whether the slower one is in use for a given reader.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code watches skill files for changes. Skills are packaged instructions Claude can use. On disk this watching works by polling, which means checking the files again at a set interval. The idle polling interval used to be fixed. It is now an option, and a feature check picks its value.\n\n**Why**\n\nPolling less often when nothing is happening lowers the file-watching work a quiet session does.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}