Organization skills still not syncing to CLI (duplicate of #40320) — repro on 2.1.220
Status Open
Reported on v2.1.220
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Activity 0 comments · opened Jul 30, 2026
Following up on #40320, which was auto-closed for inactivity by the stale bot rather than actually resolved. Still reproducible.
Environment:
- Claude Code CLI 2.1.220, macOS (Darwin 25.5.0)
- Team plan org, authenticated via
claude auth status(confirms correct org membership)
Repro:
- Org admin uploads skills via
claude.ai/admin-settings/claude-code→ Customize → Organization skills. Confirmed present there (e.g.lippert-jira,android-devices,context-audit). - In the CLI:
/skillsand/reload-skillsreport skills loaded, but none of the org-distributed skills are among them. - Inspected the local skills cache directory directly — it contains only symlinks to pre-existing personal skill folders. No managed/org-skills directory is ever created or populated locally.
- One org skill name (
context-audit) happened to collide with an already-installed personal skill of the same name, which made it look like sync was partially working — it wasn't; that was the local personal copy, unrelated to the org one. - Ruled out a non-default
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIRas the cause — same behavior regardless. - Confirmed via
claude.aidesktop app that the same org skills do trigger correctly there — this is CLI-specific.
Expected: Org-distributed skills should download to the CLI's managed-skills path and be usable via /skill-name, matching desktop behavior.
Impact: Org-wide skill distribution to CLI users is effectively non-functional. This blocks teams standardizing workflows (e.g. Jira-ticket-aware skills) across CLI and desktop users.
Ref: #40320