Claude Code cannot use skills installed to .agents
Skills installed to the shared ~/.agents folder are not detected or linked for Claude Code, so it cannot use them.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 19 March 2026 · last reported 1 May 2026
What's going wrong
Users who install agent skills globally find that Claude Code does not pick them up.
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