/reload-skills

Rescans skill and command directories so skills changed during the session become available without a restart.

Reports available/added/removed skills. Introduced in v2.1.152.

✅ WHEN TO USE IT?

Make a newly added skill available during the running session

Add a skill to .claude/skills/ and then run /reload-skills instead of restarting the session.

Verify a skill change was picked up correctly

After editing a SKILL.md, run /reload-skills and check the report of added or removed skills.

⛔ WHEN NOT TO?

An entire plugin (not just loose skills/commands) was changed

/reload-skills scans skill and command directories, not the plugin structure including loaded MCP tools.

Better: Use /reload-plugins to reload the entire plugin.

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