The exact folder location skills need to live in on macOS and Windows, and the mistake that breaks installs most often.

Where skills for Claude should go

Skills belong in your Claude Skills directory: on macOS that is typically the Application Support/Claude/skills folder, and on Windows it is the Claude/skills folder under AppData/Roaming.

Where should I put skills for Claude comes up constantly because this step is invisible — get the folder wrong and the skill simply will not appear, with no error explaining why.

The most common install mistake

Each skill needs its own subfolder with the SKILL.md file at the root. Nesting it one level too deep is the single most common reason a correctly downloaded skill fails to load.

For every source and setup detail together, see the full guide to getting skills for Claude.

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