Get Skill Version

skills.versions.retrieve(, ) -> SkillVersion

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

Get Skill Version

Parameters

skill_id: str

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

version: str

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").

Returns

class SkillVersion: …

id: str

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

created_at: datetime

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was created.

formatdate-time

description: str

Description of the skill version.

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

name: str

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: str

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

type: Literal["skill_version"]

Object type.

For Skill Versions, this is always "skill_version".

defaultskill_version

Get Skill Version

import os
from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(
    api_key=os.environ.get(
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
    ),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
skill_version = client.skills.versions.retrieve(
    version="version",
    skill_id="skill_id",
)
print(skill_version.id)

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

Returns Examples

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