Claude Code Skill Not Discovered or Auto-Triggered
You added a SKILL.md under ~/.claude/skills/ but /<name> says not found, or it never auto-fires. Fix the path, frontmatter, description, or skill-budget issue in minutes.
#Skills
Articles tagged with #Skills
Claude Skills Walkthrough: How a Skill Actually Fires (2026)
Skills look like a toggle but behave like a matcher. Here is exactly how Claude reads a SKILL.md description and decides to fire, with the limits and fixes.
Claude Skills Not Firing When Expected
Claude answered in plain prose instead of running your Skill. Usually the SKILL.md description is too vague, the Skill isn't enabled on this surface, it has disable-model-invocation set, or it got dropped from Claude Code's skill budget. Fixes verified June 2026.
Codex Skills and /skills: Built-in, Custom, and Team-Shared (2026 Guide)
How Codex Agent Skills work in June 2026: what a SKILL.md is, the exact .agents/skills/ load order, how /skills and $name invocation differ, and skill vs AGENTS.md vs MCP vs plugin.