{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"unknown-slash-command-guidance-rewritten","canonical_anchor":"unknown-slash-command-guidance-rewritten","heading":"Claude's guidance for unknown slash commands now points to skills and the apps","tier":"notice","area":"Slash Commands","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/unknown-slash-command-guidance-rewritten","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### Claude's guidance for unknown slash commands now points to skills and the apps\n\nFor an unrecognised slash command, Claude is told to use a skill of that name if there is one and never to say the command ran\n\n**What**\n\nWhen you type a slash command Claude Code does not recognise, Claude gets instructions on how to reply. Those instructions used to say you could add the command as an organization plugin or a project skill.\n\nThey now:\n\n- tell Claude to use a skill of that name if one exists (a skill is a packaged set of instructions Claude can use)\n\n- suggest creating the command in claude.ai or the desktop app\n\n- end with \"Do not say the command ran.\"\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes what Claude says when you use a command it does not know, and makes it clear the command did not run.\n\n- Area: Slash Commands\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}