{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"skills-saving-prompt-drops-the-replace-whole-skillmd-guidan","canonical_anchor":"skills-saving-prompt-drops-the-replace-whole-skillmd-guidan","heading":"Skill-saving instructions no longer say a save replaces the whole SKILL.md","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/skills-saving-prompt-drops-the-replace-whole-skillmd-guidan","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Skill-saving instructions no longer say a save replaces the whole SKILL.md\n\nClaude's instructions for proposing skill changes no longer say a save replaces the whole SKILL.md or that the file should be read first\n\n**What**\n\nA skill is a set of instructions Claude can use, stored in a file called SKILL.md. When Claude proposes a change to one of your skills, it follows built-in instructions titled \"Saving skills\". Those instructions no longer say:\n\n- Saving a proposal replaces that skill's whole SKILL.md.\n\n- Claude should read the existing file first and propose the complete updated file.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes how Claude drafts updates to your skills, since it is no longer told to write out the full file each time.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}