Unify personal skills storage between Claude desktop and Claude Code CLI

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Problem Statement

Personal skills created in the Claude desktop app are stored under AppData\Roaming\Claude\local-agent-mode-sessions\skills-plugin\ (Windows), while Claude Code CLI uses ~/.claude/skills/. These are two separate locations with no sync between them.

Proposed Solution

Suggestion: Use ~/.claude/skills/ as the single source of truth for personal skills across both the desktop app and CLI. Both apps already recognize ~/.claude/ for other shared concerns — converging skills storage there would make personal skills portable, discoverable, and easier to back up or version-control.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Medium - Would be very helpful

Feature Category

Configuration and settings

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. [FEATURE] Sync Skills between Claude Desktop and Claude Code CLI #20697
2. [FEATURE] Have a single directory for skills so the CLI + Claude Code GUI can access the same skills natively #48521
3. No native way to sync Claude Code config and skills across machines #36693

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