Personal skill has no manageable/removable source and silently serves stale content
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 1, 2026 by Applpie18 Closed Jul 4, 2026
A own self-created skill is available via the Skill tool in my session, but:
- No backing file exists anywhere on disk — checked exhaustively: project
.claude/skills/, user-level~/.claude/skills/(all subfolders), Claude Desktop'sAppData\Roaming\Claude(includinglocal-agent-mode-sessions), and all plugin caches. Nothing. - It's not visible in the Skills settings UI either, under "Personal skills" for any project workspace checked (only
learn, a first-party skill, shows there). - Content is frozen/stale ("Last updated: 2026-06-09") and doesn't reflect any edits made since.
- No management path exists to view, edit, update, or delete it — not via the filesystem, not via Settings → Skills, not via the project workspace switcher.
Workaround used: created a new project-level skill under a different name to avoid the naming collision, since the original name still resolves to stale content and can't be fixed or removed.
Impact: a user could easily keep getting outdated skill output indefinitely with no error, warning, or visible way to notice or fix it — the skill works, it just silently serves wrong/old content.
Environment: Claude Desktop (Windows), project-based workspace, "Local Agent Mode."
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