Improvements / v2.1.269
Rename synced skills to anthropic-skills:<name>
CHANGELOG · original
Changed skills synced from claude.ai in cloud sessions to be named anthropic-skills:<name>, matching Claude Desktop; the bare name still works when nothing else uses it Open official changelog ↗ Documentation
Documentation excerpt
Resolve skills that share a name
When two skills share a name, where each one came from decides which one /name runs. The table covers the enterprise, personal, project, nested, plugin, and claude.ai locations, bundled skills, and command files:
| Same name in | Which one runs |
|---|---|
| Two of enterprise, personal, and project | Enterprise over personal, and personal over project. With deploy in both ~/.claude/skills/ and the project's .claude/skills/, /deploy runs the personal one |
| Any of those locations and a bundled skill | Your skill replaces the bundled command, but not its aliases. A project code-review skill replaces /code-review, and the bundled alias /review never runs your skill |
A skill and a file in .claude/commands/ |
The skill |
| A project-root skill and a nested skill | Both load. See monorepos and subdirectories |
| A plugin skill and a skill at any of the locations above | Both load, because plugin skills are namespaced as /plugin-name:skill-name |
| Any of the above and a skill synced from your claude.ai account | The other skill or command. The synced skill still runs as /anthropic-skills:<name>. See When a synced skill name matches another command |
Documentation snapshot · 2026-09-23