[BUG] Admin Console Skills — changes don't propagate to clients (cached indefinitely)

Preflight Checklist

• [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Description:

Skills pushed via the Admin Console (Team Management Console) appear to be cached client-side on
first fetch and never re-synced, regardless of updates or deletion in the Admin Console.

Expected behavior:

• Skill updates should propagate within the documented polling interval (hourly per managed

settings docs)

• Deleted skills should no longer be available after restart

Actual behavior:

• Client is stuck on the first-fetched version indefinitely
• Neither updates nor deletions propagate
• Restarting Claude Code doesn't trigger a re-fetch
• /skills command in projects with no local skills shows "No skills found" — yet the skill still

executes when invoked by name

Environment:

• Claude Code CLI (latest version)
• macOS
• Team Plan

What Should Happen?

Expected behavior:

• Skill updates should propagate within the documented polling interval (hourly per managed

settings docs)

• Deleted skills should no longer be available after restart

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add a skill via Admin Console → Claude Code → Skills
2. Open a Claude Code session in any project — skill works correctly
3. Update the skill content in Admin Console
4. Restart Claude Code, open a new session — old version of the skill is still served
5. Wait 12+ hours — still the old version
6. Delete the skill entirely from Admin Console
7. Restart Claude Code — deleted skill is still available and runs

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

Claude Code CLI version 2.1.68

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

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