{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"skill-watcher-tracks-removed-skill-directories-and-retries","canonical_anchor":"skill-watcher-tracks-removed-skill-directories-and-retries","heading":"Skills in a folder created after startup are now picked up","tier":"notice","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/skill-watcher-tracks-removed-skill-directories-and-retries","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### Skills in a folder created after startup are now picked up\n\nClaude Code now keeps checking for a skills folder that was deleted or missing, and starts watching it again when it appears\n\n**What**\n\nSkills are reusable instructions Claude Code loads from folders on disk, and it watches those folders for changes. If a skills folder was deleted or did not exist yet, Claude Code used to stop looking for it. It now checks each such folder at regular intervals, sets up watching again when the folder appears, and waits a limited time for that watching to be ready.\n\n**Why**\n\nSkills you add after starting Claude Code, in a folder that did not exist before, can now be found.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}