diff --git a/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.ps1 b/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.ps1
index 4bf0aacf..3cfe20a0 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.ps1
+++ b/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.ps1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# mxl-compile v1.7 — Compile 1C spreadsheet from JSON
+# mxl-compile v1.8 — Compile 1C spreadsheet from JSON
 # Source: https://github.com/Nikolay-Shirokov/cc-1c-skills
 param(
 	[Parameter(Mandatory)]
@@ -854,6 +854,11 @@ X '</document>'
 
 $enc = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding($true)
 $resolvedPath = if ([System.IO.Path]::IsPathRooted($OutputPath)) { $OutputPath } else { Join-Path (Get-Location) $OutputPath }
+# Каталог назначения создаём сами: типовой путь — Templates/<Имя>/Ext/Template.xml,
+# и его может ещё не быть. Так делают и form-compile, и skd-compile, и py-порт этого
+# навыка; без этого PS-порт падал на «Could not find a part of the path».
+$outDir = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($resolvedPath)
+if ($outDir -and -not (Test-Path $outDir)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $outDir -Force | Out-Null }
 Assert-EditAllowed $resolvedPath 'editable'
 [System.IO.File]::WriteAllText($resolvedPath, $xml.ToString().TrimEnd("`r", "`n"), $enc)
 
diff --git a/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.py b/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.py
index 518047c5..6996a0c0 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.py
+++ b/.claude/skills/mxl-compile/scripts/mxl-compile.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# mxl-compile v1.7 — Compile 1C spreadsheet from JSON
+# mxl-compile v1.8 — Compile 1C spreadsheet from JSON
 # Source: https://github.com/Nikolay-Shirokov/cc-1c-skills
 import argparse
 import json
diff --git a/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/nested-output-dir.json b/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/nested-output-dir.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e07c301
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/nested-output-dir.json
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "name": "Запись по несуществующему пути: каталог назначения создаётся навыком",
+  "input": {
+    "columns": 1,
+    "areas": [
+      {
+        "name": "Шапка",
+        "rows": [
+          { "cells": [{ "col": 1, "text": "Привет" }] }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "params": { "outputPath": "Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml" },
+  "validatePath": "Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml",
+  "expect": {
+    "files": ["Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml"],
+    "preserves": {
+      "file": "Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml",
+      "bom": true,
+      "eol": "crlf",
+      "encoding": "UTF-8",
+      "finalNewline": false,
+      "noCR13": true,
+      "selfClose": "tight",
+      "noEmptyPairs": true
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/snapshots/nested-output-dir/Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml b/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/snapshots/nested-output-dir/Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fc37649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/skills/cases/mxl-compile/snapshots/nested-output-dir/Templates/Макет/Ext/Template.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<document xmlns="http://v8.1c.ru/8.2/data/spreadsheet" xmlns:style="http://v8.1c.ru/8.1/data/ui/style" xmlns:v8="http://v8.1c.ru/8.1/data/core" xmlns:v8ui="http://v8.1c.ru/8.1/data/ui" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+	<languageSettings>
+		<currentLanguage>ru</currentLanguage>
+		<defaultLanguage>ru</defaultLanguage>
+		<languageInfo>
+			<id>ru</id>
+			<code>Русский</code>
+			<description>Русский</description>
+		</languageInfo>
+	</languageSettings>
+	<columns>
+		<size>1</size>
+	</columns>
+	<rowsItem>
+		<index>0</index>
+		<row>
+			<c>
+				<i>0</i>
+				<c>
+					<f>2</f>
+					<tl>
+						<v8:item>
+							<v8:lang>ru</v8:lang>
+							<v8:content>Привет</v8:content>
+						</v8:item>
+					</tl>
+				</c>
+			</c>
+		</row>
+	</rowsItem>
+	<templateMode>true</templateMode>
+	<defaultFormatIndex>1</defaultFormatIndex>
+	<height>1</height>
+	<vgRows>1</vgRows>
+	<namedItem xsi:type="NamedItemCells">
+		<name>Шапка</name>
+		<area>
+			<type>Rows</type>
+			<beginRow>0</beginRow>
+			<endRow>0</endRow>
+			<beginColumn>-1</beginColumn>
+			<endColumn>-1</endColumn>
+		</area>
+	</namedItem>
+	<font faceName="Arial" height="10" bold="false" italic="false" underline="false" strikeout="false" kind="Absolute" scale="100"/>
+	<format>
+		<width>10</width>
+	</format>
+	<format>
+		<font>0</font>
+		<fillType>Text</fillType>
+	</format>
+</document>
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