{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"skill-tool-description-now-phrased-by-describessystemturns","canonical_anchor":"skill-tool-description-now-phrased-by-describessystemturns","heading":"Skill tool description words its skill listing differently","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/skill-tool-description-now-phrased-by-describessystemturns","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Skill tool description words its skill listing differently\n\nThe description Claude sees for the Skill tool can now call the skill list \"a listing from the system\" instead of a system-reminder listing\n\n**What**\n\nThe Skill tool lets Claude run skills, which are packaged sets of instructions set up for a particular kind of task. Claude Code now has a choice in how it words the tool's description: it can describe the list of available skills as \"a listing from the system\" instead of \"a system-reminder listing\". The description of the Skill tool changed wording in this release.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes the wording Claude reads when deciding how to use skills, not what the tool does.\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}