Dot Files & Where Skills Live

Where do skills live?

In your filesystem some files are hidden by default. You can view them by pressing Command+Shift+. (on Mac). These files are called dot files. They look like this: .claude, .cursor, .codex, etc.

They have your configuration, session information, settings, and skills.

~/.claude/ is where Claude Code keeps its settings and skills.

And there’s often a CLAUDE.md in there too. So make sure that is where your key instructions are.