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Bug: 6 of 7 skills not registering in Cowork — ckm: prefix in SKILL.md name field breaks plugin skill discovery #227

@NickyStaffs29

Description

@NickyStaffs29

Problem

When installing the ui-ux-pro-max plugin in Claude Desktop's Cowork mode, only 1 out of 7 skills registers and appears in the available skills list. The plugin shows up under Plugins, but 6 skills are invisible and unusable.

Working skill: ui-ux-pro-max (shows up correctly)
Broken skills: banner-design, brand, design, design-system, slides, ui-styling (do not register)

Root Cause

The working skill has a simple name field in its SKILL.md frontmatter:

name: ui-ux-pro-max

The 6 broken skills all use a ckm: prefix:

name: ckm:banner-design
name: ckm:brand
name: ckm:design
name: ckm:design-system
name: ckm:slides
name: ckm:ui-styling

The colon (:) in the name conflicts with how the Cowork plugin system namespaces skills internally (it uses plugin-name:skill-name format). The ckm: prefix likely causes the skill registration parser to fail silently.

Suggested Fix

Remove the ckm: prefix from the name field in each SKILL.md:

  • ckm:banner-designbanner-design
  • ckm:brandbrand
  • ckm:designdesign
  • ckm:design-systemdesign-system
  • ckm:slidesslides
  • ckm:ui-stylingui-styling

Files to Update

  • .claude/skills/banner-design/SKILL.md
  • .claude/skills/brand/SKILL.md
  • .claude/skills/design/SKILL.md
  • .claude/skills/design-system/SKILL.md
  • .claude/skills/slides/SKILL.md
  • .claude/skills/ui-styling/SKILL.md

Environment

  • Claude Desktop (Cowork mode)
  • Plugin installed from GitHub marketplace
  • Tested April 2026

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