Get Skill Version

GET /v1/skills/\{skill_id\}/versions/\{version\}

Get Skill Version

Path parameters

• skill_id: string

  Unique identifier for the skill.

  The format and length of IDs may change over time.

• version: string

  Identifies the skill version: a version ID, or the literal latest for the skill's most recent version.

  Requests carrying the skills-2025-10-02 beta header address versions by their Unix epoch timestamp instead (e.g., "1759178010641129").

Headers

• "anthropic-beta": optional array of AnthropicBeta

  Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.

  • string

  • "message-batches-2024-09-24" or "prompt-caching-2024-07-31" or "computer-use-2024-10-22" or 42 more

    • "message-batches-2024-09-24"

    • "prompt-caching-2024-07-31"

    • "computer-use-2024-10-22"

    • "computer-use-2025-01-24"

    • "pdfs-2024-09-25"

    • "token-counting-2024-11-01"

    • "token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"

    • "output-128k-2025-02-19"

    • "files-api-2025-04-14"

    • "mcp-client-2025-04-04"

    • "mcp-client-2025-11-20"

    • "dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"

    • "interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"

    • "code-execution-2025-05-22"

    • "extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"

    • "context-1m-2025-08-07"

    • "context-management-2025-06-27"

    • "model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"

    • "skills-2025-10-02"

    • "fast-mode-2026-02-01"

    • "output-300k-2026-03-24"

    • "user-profiles-2026-03-24"

    • "user-profiles-2026-08-18"

    • "user-profiles-2026-09-04"

    • "advisor-tool-2026-03-01"

    • "managed-agents-2026-04-01"

    • "cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"

    • "dreaming-2026-04-21"

    • "thinking-token-count-2026-05-13"

    • "server-side-fallback-2026-06-01"

    • "server-side-fallback-2026-07-01"

    • "fallback-credit-2026-06-01"

    • "fallback-credit-2026-07-01"

    • "agent-memory-2026-07-22"

    • "mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01"

    • "compact-2026-01-12"

    • "computer-use-2025-11-24"

    • "mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22"

    • "structured-outputs-2025-11-13"

    • "task-budgets-2026-03-13"

    • "thinking-display-updates-2026-08-18"

    • "ce-user-management-2026-07-13"

    • "mid-conversation-output-config-2026-07-01"

    • "thinking-binding-controls-2026-08-01"

    • "mid-conversation-system-clear-at-2026-08-21"

• "anthropic-workspace-id": optional string

Returns

• BetaSkillVersion object

  • type: "skill_version"

    Object type.

    For Skill Versions, this is always "skill_version".

    default: skill_version

  • id: string

    Unique identifier for this Skill Version. The id addresses the version in paths and pins it in references.

  • created_at: string

    ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was created.

    format: date-time

  • description: string

    Description of the skill version.

    This is extracted from the SKILL.md file in the skill upload.

  • name: string

    The Skill's immutable kebab-case slug, set at creation from the first upload's SKILL.md frontmatter name (or its enclosing directory). Every later upload must resolve to the same value. Also the top-level directory of the Skill's mounted files and the base name of a downloaded archive.

  • skill_id: string

    Unique identifier for the skill.

    The format and length of IDs may change over time.

Example

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/skills/$SKILL_ID/versions/$VERSION \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"

Response (200)

{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "description": "description",
  "name": "name",
  "skill_id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
  "type": "skill_version"
}