Claude Code Skill Not Discovered or Auto-Triggered
You dropped a skill under ~/.claude/skills/ but /<name> says not found, or it never auto-fires. Usually a SKILL.md frontmatter, path, or trigger-description issue.
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You dropped a skill under ~/.claude/skills/ but /<name> says not found, or it never auto-fires. Usually a SKILL.md frontmatter, path, or trigger-description issue.
Skills sound like magic until you see one fail to trigger. Here is how Claude actually decides to invoke a Skill.
You expected a Skill to trigger and it didn't — Claude answered in plain prose instead. Usually the trigger description is too vague, the Skill isn't enabled in this surface, or it conflicts with another.
A complete Codex skills guide: what a skill is, how /skills discovery works, how to invoke skills, how to write SKILL.md, and how built-in, plugin, and custom skills differ.