{"version":"2.1.318","anchor":"skills-instruction-for-script-mode-tool-use","canonical_anchor":"skills-instruction-for-script-mode-tool-use","heading":"Claude can be told to run skills from a script","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.318\/e\/skills-instruction-for-script-mode-tool-use","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.318","markdown":"### Claude can be told to run skills from a script\n\nIn a new script mode for skills, Claude is told to run a skill you type as \/ through the Skill tool from inside a script\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what switches skills into script mode or whether that mode is available to users.\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a packaged set of instructions you can run by typing `\/<skill-name>`. Claude Code has a new wording in the instructions it gives Claude, used when skills are set to a \"script\" mode. In that mode, when you type `\/<skill-name>`, Claude is told to run the skill by calling the Skill tool from a script, and to use only the skills listed as ones you can invoke.\n\nBefore, the instructions had only the default wording and one alternate wording.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis points to a way of working where Claude calls its tools from a script it writes, rather than one tool call at a time, and skills can be run that way too.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}