Claude Code Adds Auto-Loaded Skills and /reload-skills for In-Session Skill Installation

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Anthropic's June Claude Code updates make plugins in .claude/skills directories load automatically with no marketplace required, and add claude plugin init to scaffold a new plugin. A new /reload-skills command re-scans skill directories without restarting, and SessionStart hooks can return reloadSkills: true so skills they install become available in the same session. This tightens the agent-skills authoring loop and removes friction for self-modifying/self-improving agent setups.