one-code-extension 0.4.1 → 0.5.0

package/extensions/skill/index.ts

@@ -2,23 +2,29 @@
  * skill extension — Claude Code's Skill tool.
  *
  * pi's own mechanism lists skills in the system prompt and expects the model to
- * `read` the SKILL.md path. Claude Code instead exposes a `skill` tool that
- * returns the skill's instructions as a tool result. This adds that tool, so a
- * skill can be invoked by name — including plugin skills as `<plugin>:<skill>`.
+ * `read` the SKILL.md path. Claude Code instead exposes a `skill` tool, which
+ * answers "Launching skill: <name>" with the skill's instructions beside it.
+ * This adds that tool, so a skill can be invoked by name — including plugin
+ * skills as `<plugin>:<skill>` — and expands a skill the user types into its
+ * instructions before the model sees the message, as Claude Code does.
  *
  * Skills discovered by pi (which includes `~/.claude/skills` and
  * `.claude/skills` thanks to the claude-compat extension) are read from
  * `before_agent_start`'s systemPromptOptions rather than rediscovered here.
  */
 
-import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
 import os from "node:os";
+import { dirname, join, resolve, sep } from "node:path";
+import type { Api, Model } from "@earendil-works/pi-ai";
 import type { ExtensionAPI, ExtensionContext } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
-import { getAgentDir, stripFrontmatter } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
+import { getAgentDir } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
 import { Type } from "typebox";
+import { canShowCustomUi, notifyOrPrint, notifyRpcReadOnly } from "../lib/headless-output.ts";
 import { pluginRoot } from "../lib/plugin-root.ts";
 import { defaultDiscoverRoots, discoverPlugins } from "../lib/plugins.ts";
-import { awaitOneShotTurn } from "../lib/notifications.ts";
+import { awaitOneShotTurn, sessionOutlivesTurn } from "../lib/notifications.ts";
+import { PROMPT_OPTIONS_CHANNEL, type PromptOptionsAnnouncement } from "../lib/prompt-options.ts";
 import { CONTEXT_ORDER, REMINDER_CHANNEL } from "../lib/reminders.ts";
 import {
 	nextSkillState,
@@ -30,22 +36,34 @@ import {
 	skillStateFor,
 } from "../lib/skill-overrides.ts";
 import { BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR, estimateSkillTokens, promptTemplateNames, scanSkills, scopeForPath } from "../lib/skill-scan.ts";
-import { recordUsage } from "../lib/usage-tracker.ts";
+import { sessionModelTier } from "../lib/session-model-tier.ts";
+import { readUsage, recordUsage, usageKey } from "../lib/usage-tracker.ts";
 import { boundedDockHeight, ccToolRenderers, safeThemeBold, safeThemePaint, truncateLine } from "../lib/tui-render.ts";
 import {
 	bareSkillMatches,
-	buildSkillBlock,
+	commandDisplayLine,
+	launchingSkill,
+	missingArgumentsNote,
 	parseSkillCommand,
 	redactOffSkillMessages,
 	resolveSkill,
+	SKILL_INVOCATION_TYPE,
+	type SkillInvocationDetails,
 	skillCommandCandidates,
+	skillPromptText,
+	typedSkillContent,
+	withoutDuplicateSkillCommands,
 } from "./invoke.ts";
+import { codeReviewBody } from "./code-review.ts";
 import { decodeSkillsKey } from "./panel/keys.ts";
-import { skillListingText } from "./listing.ts";
+import { frontmatterFlag, readableSkillListing, skillListingBudget, skillListingText, usageScore, withoutPiSkillsBlock } from "./listing.ts";
 import { renderSkillsPanel, type SkillsPaint } from "./panel/render.ts";
-import { applySkillsKey, initialSkillsState, type SkillsRow, visibleRows } from "./panel/state.ts";
+import { applySkillsKey, followRow, initialSkillsState, type SkillsRow, visibleRows } from "./panel/state.ts";
+import { announceArgumentHint, type CommandHint, frontmatterCommandHint } from "../lib/argument-hints.ts";
+import { parseSlashCommand, SKILL_BODY_CHANNEL, type SkillBodyQuery, SLASH_EXPAND_CHANNEL, type SlashExpandQuery } from "../lib/skill-body.ts";
 import { parseFrontmatterLoosely } from "../lib/frontmatter.ts";
 import { registerLocalCommand } from "../lib/local-command.ts";
+import { panelUi } from "../lib/panel-focus.ts";
 
 interface IndexedSkill {
 	name: string;
@@ -55,22 +73,83 @@ interface IndexedSkill {
 	scope: SkillScope;
 	state: SkillState;
 	pluginName?: string;
+	/** The `when_to_use` frontmatter, which Claude Code lists after the description. */
+	whenToUse?: string;
+	/**
+	 * A plugin command (`<plugin>:<command>`): listed for the model and
+	 * loadable through the tool, as in Claude Code; typed, it stays the
+	 * plugins extension's command.
+	 */
+	kind?: "command";
+	/**
+	 * Frontmatter `disable-model-invocation: true`: only the user starts it (a
+	 * typed `/<name>`); it is left out of the model's listing and the `skill`
+	 * tool refuses it, as Claude Code's Skill tool does.
+	 */
+	disableModelInvocation?: boolean;
 }
 
+
 /** Bounded dock like the /plugins panel — keeps the transcript visible above. */
 const SKILLS_PANEL_MAX_HEIGHT = 24;
 
+const BUNDLED_ROOT = resolve(BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR);
+/** A skill in One Code's own catalog, like one built into Claude Code: listed last, kept whole over budget, no folder named. */
+const isBundled = (path: string): boolean => resolve(path).startsWith(BUNDLED_ROOT + sep);
+const CODE_REVIEW_PATH = join(BUNDLED_ROOT, "code-review", "SKILL.md");
+const CODE_REVIEW_CELLS = join(BUNDLED_ROOT, "code-review", "cells");
+
 export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
+	const requestTier = sessionModelTier(pi);
+	// pi draws a user message as markdown, so a typed skill, `/init` and
+	// `/doctor` showed their whole expanded prompt; show the command line.
+	pi.registerMarkdownTransformer((markdown, context) =>
+		context.messageType === "user" ? (commandDisplayLine(markdown) ?? markdown) : markdown,
+	);
 	/** pi resolves skills per turn; cache the latest list for the tool to use. */
 	let piSkills: IndexedSkill[] = [];
 	/** Session cwd, so project-level enabledPlugins settings apply to plugin skills. */
 	let sessionCwd: string | undefined;
+	/** The session's model: its context window sizes the listing, its tier picks code-review's body. */
+	let sessionModel: Model<Api> | undefined;
 
-	pi.on("before_agent_start", (event, ctx) => {
-		sessionCwd = ctx.cwd;
-		const skills = event.systemPromptOptions.skills ?? [];
+	/**
+	 * True once a `prompt()` has run (the only path that emits
+	 * before_agent_start). Until then an idle skill delivery goes out as a user
+	 * message: pi's `sendMessage(…, {triggerTurn})` skips that preamble, so a
+	 * session opening with `/loop …` or `/simplify` ran its first request
+	 * without our system prompt or reminder stack (lib/notifications.ts,
+	 * "First turn of a session"; upstream_prs.md #17). Later turns get the
+	 * prompt from system-prompt's context_with_system handler (idle-turn.ts).
+	 */
+	let prompted = false;
+	/**
+	 * A one-shot run (`-p`, `--mode json`) ends when its prompt returns, so the
+	 * bare `/<name>` skill forms are taken by the `input` hook there instead of
+	 * registered as commands: a command can only start a second prompt, which
+	 * the run does not wait for.
+	 */
+	let oneShot = false;
+	/** The bare skill names a one-shot run takes in the `input` hook. */
+	const oneShotSkillNames = new Set<string>();
+
+	// A factory re-run builds each session's instance, so this is belt and braces
+	// (lib/notifications.ts resets its twin the same way).
+	pi.on("session_start", (_event, ctx) => {
+		prompted = false;
+		oneShot = !sessionOutlivesTurn(ctx.mode);
+		announcedSkills = false;
+		sessionUsage = undefined;
+		sessionModel = ctx.model;
+	});
+	pi.on("model_select", (event) => {
+		sessionModel = event.model;
+	});
+	/** Index the skills pi resolved for this turn and list them for the model. */
+	const adoptPiSkills = (skills: unknown[], cwd: string) => {
+		sessionCwd = cwd;
 		piSkills = skills.map((skill) => {
-			const record = skill as unknown as { name: string; description?: string; path?: string; filePath?: string };
+			const record = skill as unknown as { name: string; description?: string; path?: string; filePath?: string; disableModelInvocation?: boolean };
 			const path = record.path ?? record.filePath ?? "";
 			return {
 				name: record.name,
@@ -79,10 +158,21 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 				source: "project" as const,
 				scope: scopeForPath(path, os.homedir(), getAgentDir()),
 				state: "on" as const, // resolved per index() call below
+				// pi reads only a YAML `true`; Claude Code also takes the string "true".
+				disableModelInvocation: record.disableModelInvocation === true || (path ? readModelInvocationDisabled(path) : false),
 			};
 		});
 		// Claude Code lists skills as a <system-reminder> on the first user message
-		// (its block 3), framed for the Skill tool — not in the system prompt.
+		// (its block 3), framed for the Skill tool — not in the system prompt. A
+		// session without that tool (an agent limited to read and bash, a main
+		// session started with fewer tools) gets the same block framed for reading
+		// the file, since pi's own section is dropped from every prompt below.
+		const tools = pi.getActiveTools();
+		if (!tools.includes("skill")) {
+			const readable = readableSkillListing(index(), tools.includes("read") ? "the read tool" : "the shell");
+			if (readable) pi.events.emit(REMINDER_CHANNEL, { text: readable, scope: "every-turn", key: "skills", placement: "first-prepend", order: CONTEXT_ORDER.skills });
+			return;
+		}
 		const listing = describe();
 		if (listing !== "(no skills available)") {
 			pi.events.emit(REMINDER_CHANNEL, {
@@ -93,6 +183,28 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 				order: CONTEXT_ORDER.skills,
 			});
 		}
+	};
+	pi.on("before_agent_start", (event, ctx) => {
+		prompted = true;
+		sessionModel = ctx.model ?? sessionModel;
+		adoptPiSkills(event.systemPromptOptions.skills ?? [], ctx.cwd);
+		// The listing above is the one skills instruction: drop pi's own section
+		// from the prompt (a child agent's own prompt carries it; the main
+		// session's prompt is rebuilt without it).
+		if (typeof event.systemPrompt !== "string") return;
+		const stripped = withoutPiSkillsBlock(event.systemPrompt);
+		return stripped === event.systemPrompt ? undefined : { systemPrompt: stripped };
+	});
+	// The first turn a background completion opens (lib/prompt-options.ts)
+	// carries the same listing a typed first prompt would.
+	// The first announcement wins, as in system-prompt: both describe one turn.
+	let announcedSkills = false;
+	pi.events.on(PROMPT_OPTIONS_CHANNEL, (data) => {
+		const announced = data as PromptOptionsAnnouncement | undefined;
+		const skills = (announced?.options as { skills?: unknown[] } | undefined)?.skills;
+		if (prompted || announcedSkills || !announced?.cwd || !Array.isArray(skills)) return;
+		announcedSkills = true;
+		adoptPiSkills(skills, announced.cwd);
 	});
 
 	/**
@@ -102,24 +214,57 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	 * stable for the session anyway (the listing must stay byte-stable for the
 	 * cache prefix).
 	 */
-	const descriptionCache = new Map<string, string | undefined>();
+	const frontmatterCache = new Map<string, Record<string, unknown> | undefined>();
+	/** A SKILL.md's frontmatter, read once per path: the description and the argument hint come from it. */
+	const readFrontmatter = (path: string): Record<string, unknown> | undefined => {
+		if (frontmatterCache.has(path)) return frontmatterCache.get(path);
+		let frontmatter: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+		try {
+			frontmatter = parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(path, "utf-8")).frontmatter;
+		} catch {
+			frontmatter = undefined;
+		}
+		frontmatterCache.set(path, frontmatter);
+		return frontmatter;
+	};
 	const readDescription = (path: string): string | undefined => {
-		if (descriptionCache.has(path)) return descriptionCache.get(path);
-		const description = readDescriptionUncached(path);
-		descriptionCache.set(path, description);
-		return description;
+		const description = readFrontmatter(path)?.description;
+		return typeof description === "string" ? description : undefined;
+	};
+	const readWhenToUse = (path: string): string | undefined => {
+		const whenToUse = readFrontmatter(path)?.when_to_use;
+		return typeof whenToUse === "string" && whenToUse.trim() ? whenToUse : undefined;
 	};
-	const readDescriptionUncached = (path: string): string | undefined => {
+
+	/**
+	 * A SKILL.md's `disable-model-invocation` flag, read apart from the
+	 * description cache and again whenever the file changes: a flag added
+	 * mid-session must stop the model loading the skill, while the listing's
+	 * descriptions stay byte-stable.
+	 */
+	const invocationFlagCache = new Map<string, { mtimeMs: number; disabled: boolean }>();
+	const readModelInvocationDisabled = (path: string): boolean => {
+		let mtimeMs = -1;
 		try {
-			const { frontmatter } = parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(path, "utf-8")) as {
-				frontmatter?: { description?: unknown };
-			};
-			return typeof frontmatter?.description === "string" ? frontmatter.description : undefined;
+			mtimeMs = statSync(path).mtimeMs;
 		} catch {
-			return undefined;
+			// Unreadable: parsed (and failed) below, cached under -1.
 		}
+		const cached = invocationFlagCache.get(path);
+		if (cached && cached.mtimeMs === mtimeMs) return cached.disabled;
+		let disabled = false;
+		try {
+			disabled = frontmatterFlag(parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(path, "utf-8")).frontmatter?.["disable-model-invocation"]);
+		} catch {
+			// No file, no flag.
+		}
+		invocationFlagCache.set(path, { mtimeMs, disabled });
+		return disabled;
 	};
 
+	/** A SKILL.md's `argument-hint`, the prompt's placeholder after its command (lib/argument-hints.ts). */
+	const readArgumentHint = (path: string): CommandHint | undefined => frontmatterCommandHint(readFrontmatter(path));
+
 	// Per-skill availability comes from the skill-overrides store (the /skills
 	// panel cycles it, the /plugins panel manages plugin skills). The listing
 	// and the tool both re-read it, so a change applies live.
@@ -130,7 +275,11 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	// the /skills command/panel falls back to a disk scan (reading each
 	// SKILL.md's frontmatter for its description) — that's the gap that made a
 	// fresh session's /skills show only plugin skills.
-	const index = (cwd = sessionCwd): IndexedSkill[] => {
+	//
+	// The order is Claude Code's: project and user skills, then plugin commands
+	// and plugin skills, then the bundled catalog.
+	/** Every listable entry; `withCommands: false` leaves out plugin commands (and their frontmatter reads). */
+	const index = (cwd = sessionCwd, withCommands = true): IndexedSkill[] => {
 		const agentDir = getAgentDir();
 		const home = os.homedir();
 		const states = readSkillStates(pluginRoot(agentDir));
@@ -145,34 +294,78 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 						source: "project" as const,
 						scope: skill.scope,
 						state: "on" as const,
+						disableModelInvocation: readModelInvocationDisabled(skill.path),
 					}));
 		const project = base.map((skill) => ({
 			...skill,
+			whenToUse: readWhenToUse(skill.path),
 			state: skillStateFor(states, skillOverrideKey(skill.scope, skill.name)),
 		}));
 		// Plugin skills from discoverPlugins are already filtered to enabled by
 		// the same store; anything it returns is fully available (plugin skills
 		// aren't governed by skillOverrides — managed via /plugins).
-		const plugin = discoverPlugins(defaultDiscoverRoots(agentDir, cwd, home)).skills.map((skill) => ({
+		const discovered = discoverPlugins(defaultDiscoverRoots(agentDir, cwd, home));
+		const plugin = discovered.skills.map((skill) => ({
 			name: skill.name,
 			description: readDescription(skill.path),
+			whenToUse: readWhenToUse(skill.path),
 			path: skill.path,
 			source: "plugin" as const,
 			scope: "plugin" as const,
 			state: "on" as const,
 			pluginName: skill.plugin,
+			disableModelInvocation: readModelInvocationDisabled(skill.path),
 		}));
-		return [...project, ...plugin];
+		// A plugin command is listed when it describes itself, as in Claude Code.
+		const commands = !withCommands ? [] : discovered.commands.flatMap((command) => {
+			const description = readDescription(command.path);
+			const whenToUse = readWhenToUse(command.path);
+			if (!description?.trim() && !whenToUse) return [];
+			return [
+				{
+					name: command.name,
+					description,
+					whenToUse,
+					path: command.path,
+					source: "plugin" as const,
+					scope: "plugin" as const,
+					state: "on" as const,
+					pluginName: command.plugin,
+					kind: "command" as const,
+					disableModelInvocation: readModelInvocationDisabled(command.path),
+				},
+			];
+		});
+		return [...project.filter((skill) => !isBundled(skill.path)), ...commands, ...plugin, ...project.filter((skill) => isBundled(skill.path))];
 	};
+	/** Skills proper: the /skills panel and the typed forms leave plugin commands to the plugins extension. */
+	const skillsOnly = (cwd = sessionCwd): IndexedSkill[] => index(cwd, false);
 
-	const describe = () => skillListingText(index());
+	/**
+	 * Usage as the session found it: read once, so the listing's ranking (and
+	 * with it message 1 of the cached prefix) does not move when a skill is
+	 * used mid-session or a day's decay crosses a threshold.
+	 */
+	let sessionUsage: { usage: ReturnType<typeof readUsage>; now: Date } | undefined;
+
+	/** The listing, within Claude Code's budget for the session model's context window. */
+	const describe = () => {
+		sessionUsage ??= { usage: readUsage(pluginRoot(getAgentDir())), now: new Date() };
+		const { usage, now } = sessionUsage;
+		const skills = index().map((skill) => ({
+			...skill,
+			bundled: isBundled(skill.path),
+			usage: usageScore(usage[usageKey(skill.kind ?? "skill", skill.name)], now),
+		}));
+		return skillListingText(skills, skillListingBudget(sessionModel?.contextWindow));
+	};
 
 	pi.registerTool({
 		name: "skill",
 		label: "Skill",
 		...ccToolRenderers<{ skill?: string; args?: string }>("Skill", {
 			title: (a) => (a ? [a.skill, a.args].filter(Boolean).join(" ") : undefined),
-			// The full instruction text goes to the model; the transcript needs one line.
+			// The skill's text goes to the model; the transcript needs one line.
 			result: (_r, a, isError) => (isError ? undefined : a?.skill ? `Loaded ${a.skill}` : undefined),
 		}),
 		description:
@@ -183,12 +376,12 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 			args: Type.Optional(Type.String({ description: "Arguments to pass through to the skill" })),
 			list: Type.Optional(Type.Boolean({ description: "List available skills instead of invoking one" })),
 		}),
-		async execute(_toolCallId, params) {
+		async execute(_toolCallId, params, _signal, _onUpdate, ctx) {
 			// `list`, or a bare call with no invoke signal, browses the catalog. A
 			// call that passed `args` but no `skill` is an invocation that forgot to
 			// name the skill — fail loudly rather than silently returning the
 			// catalog, which a weak model reads as a non-sequitur (same archetype as
-			// the subagent tool; see docs/decisions/subagents-workflows.md).
+			// the subagent tool; see working-docs/decisions/subagents-workflows.md).
 			const all = index();
 			if (params.list || (!params.skill && params.args == null)) {
 				return {
@@ -241,10 +434,21 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 				};
 			}
 
-			let body: string;
+			// Only the user may start a skill marked `disable-model-invocation`
+			// (a typed `/<name>` runs through deliverSkill, not this tool).
+			if (found.disableModelInvocation || readModelInvocationDisabled(found.path)) {
+				return {
+					content: [{ type: "text", text: `Skill ${wanted} cannot be used with Skill tool due to disable-model-invocation` }],
+					details: { skill: found.name } as Record<string, unknown>,
+					isError: true,
+				};
+			}
+
+			let promptText: string;
 			try {
 				const parsed = parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(found.path, "utf-8")) as { body: string };
-				body = parsed.body.trim();
+				const { body, args } = skillBody(found, parsed.body.trim(), params.args?.trim() ?? "", ctx.cwd);
+				promptText = skillPromptText(body, args, baseDirFor(found));
 			} catch (error) {
 				return {
 					content: [{ type: "text", text: `Could not read skill "${found.name}": ${(error as Error).message}` }],
@@ -253,76 +457,130 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 				};
 			}
 
-			recordUsage(pluginRoot(getAgentDir()), "skill", found.name);
+			recordUsage(pluginRoot(getAgentDir()), found.kind ?? "skill", found.name);
 
-			// Resource paths in a skill are relative to its own directory, so the
-			// model needs to know where it lives to read references/ or scripts/.
-			const header = [
-				`Skill: ${found.name}`,
-				`Location: ${found.path}`,
-				params.args ? `Arguments: ${params.args}` : undefined,
-				"Follow these instructions for the current task.",
-			]
-				.filter(Boolean)
-				.join("\n");
+			// A skill that takes arguments, called without any, returns its
+			// no-argument body; say so, since a model previewing the skill would
+			// otherwise follow it (invoke.ts missingArgumentsNote).
+			const hint = params.args?.trim() ? undefined : readArgumentHint(found.path);
+			const hintText = hint?.hint ?? hint?.argNames?.map((name) => `<${name}>`).join(" ");
+			const note = hintText ? missingArgumentsNote(hintText) : undefined;
 
+			// Claude Code's shape: the result says the skill is launching, and its
+			// text follows as a block of its own.
 			return {
-				content: [{ type: "text", text: `${header}\n\n---\n\n${body}` }],
+				content: [
+					{ type: "text", text: launchingSkill(found.name) },
+					{ type: "text", text: note ? `${note.before}\n\n${promptText}\n\n${note.after}` : promptText },
+				],
 				details: { skill: found.name, path: found.path } as Record<string, unknown>,
 			};
 		},
 	});
 
 	/**
-	 * Surface a user-facing skill message: a TUI/RPC toast where there is UI, or
-	 * stderr in a one-shot run (`-p`, `--mode json`), where `ctx.ui.notify` is a
-	 * no-op (pi wires no UI context there) so the message would otherwise vanish
-	 * and the command would exit silently. `console.error` writes to stderr, so it
-	 * never corrupts the `--mode json` event stream on stdout.
+	 * A skill's body and the arguments still to append: a generated body
+	 * (lib/skill-body.ts, `/loop`) carries its arguments, a file's does not.
+	 * The bundled code-review picks its body by tier and effort (code-review.ts).
 	 */
-	const notifyOrPrint = (
-		ctx: Pick<ExtensionContext, "hasUI" | "ui">,
-		message: string,
-		level: "warning" | "error",
-	): void => {
-		if (ctx.hasUI) ctx.ui.notify(message, level);
-		else console.error(message);
+	const skillBody = (found: IndexedSkill, fileBody: string, args: string, cwd: string): { body: string; args: string } => {
+		if (found.kind === "command") return { body: fileBody, args };
+		if (resolve(found.path) === CODE_REVIEW_PATH) {
+			try {
+				const review = codeReviewBody(CODE_REVIEW_CELLS, requestTier(), pi.getThinkingLevel(), args);
+				return { body: review.body, args: review.args };
+			} catch {
+				// A cell file missing from an install: the SKILL.md body (the medium cell) still reviews.
+			}
+		}
+		const query: SkillBodyQuery = { skill: found.name, path: found.path, args, cwd };
+		pi.events.emit(SKILL_BODY_CHANNEL, query);
+		return query.body !== undefined ? { body: query.body, args: "" } : { body: fileBody, args };
 	};
+	/** The folder Claude Code names before a skill's text; none for One Code's own catalog. */
+	const baseDirFor = (found: IndexedSkill): string | undefined => (found.kind === "command" || isBundled(found.path) ? undefined : dirname(found.path));
+
+	// A fired scheduled prompt that is a skill's slash command runs that skill,
+	// as Claude Code's queue runs a fired `/babysit-prs` (lib/skill-body.ts).
+	pi.events.on(SLASH_EXPAND_CHANNEL, (data) => {
+		const query = data as SlashExpandQuery;
+		const command = parseSlashCommand(query.text);
+		if (!command) return;
+		const found = resolveSkill(skillsOnly(query.cwd), command.name.replace(/^skill:/, ""));
+		if (!found || found.state === "off") return;
+		let fileBody: string;
+		try {
+			fileBody = parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(found.path, "utf-8")).body.trim();
+		} catch {
+			return;
+		}
+		recordUsage(pluginRoot(getAgentDir()), "skill", found.name);
+		const { body, args } = skillBody(found, fileBody, command.args, query.cwd);
+		query.expanded = typedSkillContent(found.name, command.args, skillPromptText(body, args, baseDirFor(found))).join("");
+	});
+
+	/** The `input` hook's answer that replaces the typed prompt with the skill's message. */
+	type SkillTransform = { action: "transform"; text: string; images?: Array<{ type: "image"; data: string; mimeType: string }> };
 
 	/**
 	 * Run a resolved skill the way a user-typed command does: refuse an "off"
 	 * skill (in EVERY mode — falling through would hand `/skill:` to pi's native
 	 * expansion, which knows nothing of the overrides store and would run it; a
 	 * one-shot run gets the refusal on stderr instead of a UI notice, never as
-	 * silent execution), else re-deliver pi's exact `<skill>` block as a hidden
-	 * custom message. The model receives the same bytes pi's own expansion would
-	 * submit as a user turn (convertToLlm maps a custom message to a user message
-	 * regardless of `display`), but nothing renders. Shared by the `/skill:<name>`
-	 * interception and the bare `/<name>` commands.
+	 * silent execution), else deliver Claude Code's typed-skill message (the
+	 * command breadcrumb and the skill's text) as a hidden custom message: the
+	 * model receives it as a user message (convertToLlm maps a custom message
+	 * to one regardless of `display`), but nothing renders and no `skill` call
+	 * is needed. Shared by the `/skill:<name>` interception, the typed
+	 * `/<plugin>:<skill>` form and the bare `/<name>` commands.
 	 */
 	const deliverSkill = async (
 		found: IndexedSkill,
 		args: string,
 		ctx: ExtensionContext & { waitForIdle?: () => Promise<void> },
-		extra: { images?: Array<{ type: "image"; data: string; mimeType: string }>; streamingBehavior?: "steer" | "followUp" } = {},
-	): Promise<"handled" | "unavailable"> => {
+		extra: {
+			images?: Array<{ type: "image"; data: string; mimeType: string }>;
+			streamingBehavior?: "steer" | "followUp";
+			input?: string;
+			/** Called from the `input` hook, which can hand the message back as the prompt's own text. */
+			fromInput?: boolean;
+		} = {},
+	): Promise<"handled" | "unavailable" | SkillTransform> => {
 		if (found.state === "off") {
 			const where = found.source === "plugin" ? "/plugins" : "/skills";
 			notifyOrPrint(ctx, `Skill "${found.name}" is turned off — enable it from ${where} to run it.`, "warning");
 			return "handled";
 		}
-		let body: string;
+		let fileBody: string;
 		try {
-			body = stripFrontmatter(readFileSync(found.path, "utf-8")).trim();
+			fileBody = parseFrontmatterLoosely(readFileSync(found.path, "utf-8")).body.trim();
 		} catch {
 			return "unavailable";
 		}
 		recordUsage(pluginRoot(getAgentDir()), "skill", found.name);
-		const block = buildSkillBlock({ name: found.name, filePath: found.path }, body, args);
-		// Carry any attached images alongside the block, as pi's native path would.
-		const content = extra.images?.length ? [{ type: "text" as const, text: block }, ...extra.images] : block;
+		const { body, args: bodyArgs } = skillBody(found, fileBody, args, ctx.cwd);
+		// Claude Code's typed-skill message: the command breadcrumb, then the
+		// skill's text; any attached images ride after them.
+		const [breadcrumb, text] = typedSkillContent(found.name, args, skillPromptText(body, bodyArgs, baseDirFor(found)));
+		const content = [{ type: "text" as const, text: breadcrumb }, { type: "text" as const, text }, ...(extra.images ?? [])];
+		if (!prompted && !extra.streamingBehavior) {
+			// From the input hook the message becomes the typed prompt's own text
+			// (the same bytes sendUserMessage would send: its text parts joined by a
+			// newline). sendUserMessage starts a second prompt that is still in its
+			// async preflight when this handler returns, so the session looks idle,
+			// and a one-shot run disposed the session before that turn ran.
+			if (extra.fromInput) return { action: "transform", text: `${breadcrumb}\n${text}`, images: extra.images };
+			pi.sendUserMessage(content, { deliverAs: "followUp" });
+			await awaitOneShotTurn(ctx);
+			return "handled";
+		}
 		pi.sendMessage(
-			{ customType: "one-code:skill-invocation", content, display: false, details: { skill: found.name, args } },
+			{
+				customType: SKILL_INVOCATION_TYPE,
+				content,
+				display: false,
+				details: { skill: found.name, args, ...(extra.input !== undefined ? { input: extra.input } : {}) } satisfies SkillInvocationDetails,
+			},
 			{ triggerTurn: true, ...(extra.streamingBehavior ? { deliverAs: extra.streamingBehavior } : {}) },
 		);
 		// The turn we just triggered rides a fire-and-forget pi.sendMessage. In a
@@ -339,21 +597,52 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	// the transcript as a new user turn. Intercept it here, suppress pi's
 	// expansion (return "handled"), and deliver through deliverSkill. An unknown
 	// name, an ambiguous plugin match, or an unreadable file falls through to
-	// pi's native handling. This hook only covers prompt(); paths that expand
-	// without an `input` event (steer/followUp) are caught by the context-hook
-	// redaction below.
+	// pi's native handling. Since pi 0.86.0 (faa9863cb) this also runs for a
+	// message queued mid-turn and for RPC steer/followUp (`streamingBehavior` is
+	// set), so an off skill is refused before it enters the queue. On older pi
+	// those paths skip `input`; the context-hook redaction below covers them.
+	//
+	// A typed `/<plugin>:<skill>` has no command of its own (plugin skills get
+	// no bare alias), so it reached the model as text and the model called
+	// `skill`; it is expanded here too, as Claude Code expands it. Only an exact
+	// plugin-skill name is taken; anything else stays the user's text.
+	//
+	// In a one-shot run the bare `/<name>` forms are not commands (see
+	// registerSkillCommands) and are taken here too, so the first skill becomes
+	// the prompt's own text and the run waits for its turn.
 	pi.on("input", async (event, ctx) => {
-		const cmd = parseSkillCommand(event.text);
+		const typed = parseSkillCommand(event.text) ?? oneShotBareSkill(event.text);
+		const plugin = typed ? undefined : typedPluginSkill(event.text);
+		const cmd = typed ?? plugin?.command;
 		if (!cmd) return { action: "continue" };
-		const found = resolveSkill(index(), cmd.name);
+		const found = plugin?.skill ?? resolveSkill(skillsOnly(ctx.cwd), cmd.name);
 		if (!found) return { action: "continue" };
 		const outcome = await deliverSkill(found, cmd.args, ctx, {
 			images: event.images as Array<{ type: "image"; data: string; mimeType: string }> | undefined,
 			streamingBehavior: event.streamingBehavior,
+			input: event.text,
+			fromInput: true,
 		});
+		if (typeof outcome === "object") return outcome;
 		return { action: outcome === "handled" ? "handled" : "continue" };
 	});
 
+	/** A typed bare `/<name> [args]` naming a skill whose command a one-shot run left unregistered. */
+	const oneShotBareSkill = (text: string): { name: string; args: string } | undefined => {
+		if (!oneShot || !text.startsWith("/")) return undefined;
+		const command = parseSlashCommand(text);
+		return command && oneShotSkillNames.has(command.name) ? command : undefined;
+	};
+
+	/** A typed `/<plugin>:<skill> [args]` naming a plugin skill exactly, and that skill. */
+	const typedPluginSkill = (text: string): { command: { name: string; args: string }; skill: IndexedSkill } | undefined => {
+		if (!text.startsWith("/")) return undefined;
+		const command = parseSlashCommand(text);
+		if (!command?.name.includes(":")) return undefined;
+		const skill = skillsOnly().find((candidate) => candidate.source === "plugin" && candidate.name === command.name);
+		return skill ? { command, skill } : undefined;
+	};
+
 	// Claude Code invokes a user/project skill as a bare `/<name>` (only plugin
 	// skills carry a `<plugin>:` prefix); pi registers `/skill:<name>`. Register
 	// each project/user/bundled skill as a bare extension command too, so
@@ -370,7 +659,7 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	// be unregistered, so the handler resolves the skill afresh at invocation:
 	// a skill deleted or turned off since registration is refused, never run.
 	const registeredSkillCommands = new Set<string>();
-	const registerSkillCommands = (cwd: string | undefined) => {
+	const registerSkillCommands = (cwd: string | undefined, skills: IndexedSkill[] = skillsOnly(cwd)) => {
 		let taken: string[];
 		try {
 			taken = pi.getCommands().map((command) => command.name);
@@ -378,12 +667,18 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 			return; // not bound yet (load time) — session_start retries
 		}
 		const templates = promptTemplateNames(cwd ?? process.cwd(), os.homedir(), getAgentDir());
-		for (const skill of skillCommandCandidates(index(cwd), [...taken, ...templates, ...registeredSkillCommands])) {
+		for (const skill of skillCommandCandidates(skills, [...taken, ...templates, ...registeredSkillCommands, ...oneShotSkillNames])) {
+			if (oneShot) {
+				oneShotSkillNames.add(skill.name);
+				continue;
+			}
 			registeredSkillCommands.add(skill.name);
+			const hint = readArgumentHint(skill.path);
+			if (hint) announceArgumentHint(pi, skill.name, hint);
 			pi.registerCommand(skill.name, {
 				description: skill.description ? `${skill.description} (skill)` : `Run the ${skill.name} skill`,
 				handler: async (args, ctx) => {
-					const found = resolveSkill(index(ctx.cwd), skill.name);
+					const found = resolveSkill(skillsOnly(ctx.cwd), skill.name);
 					if (!found || (await deliverSkill(found, args.trim(), ctx)) === "unavailable") {
 						notifyOrPrint(ctx, `Skill "${skill.name}" is no longer available (its SKILL.md was removed or is unreadable).`, "error");
 					}
@@ -391,20 +686,46 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 			});
 		}
 	};
-	pi.on("session_start", (_event, ctx) => registerSkillCommands(ctx.cwd));
+	pi.on("session_start", (_event, ctx) => {
+		const skills = skillsOnly(ctx.cwd);
+		registerSkillCommands(ctx.cwd, skills);
+		// pi lists every skill a second time as `/skill:<name>`; drop that entry
+		// where the bare command exists (withoutDuplicateSkillCommands).
+		if (ctx.hasUI && ctx.mode === "tui") {
+			ctx.ui.addAutocompleteProvider((current) => ({
+				...current,
+				getSuggestions: async (lines, cursorLine, cursorCol, options) => {
+					const suggestions = await current.getSuggestions(lines, cursorLine, cursorCol, options);
+					if (!suggestions) return suggestions;
+					const items = withoutDuplicateSkillCommands(suggestions.items, suggestions.prefix, registeredSkillCommands);
+					return items.length > 0 ? { ...suggestions, items } : null;
+				},
+				applyCompletion: (...args) => current.applyCompletion(...args),
+				...(current.shouldTriggerFileCompletion ? { shouldTriggerFileCompletion: (...args) => current.shouldTriggerFileCompletion!(...args) } : {}),
+			}));
+		}
+		// pi's own `/skill:<name>` form, which pi lists only after the first turn.
+		for (const skill of skills) {
+			const hint = skill.source === "plugin" ? undefined : readArgumentHint(skill.path);
+			if (hint) announceArgumentHint(pi, `skill:${skill.name}`, hint);
+		}
+	});
 	// pi's per-turn resolution (frontmatter `name`, description required) can
 	// surface skills the pre-turn disk scan missed; late registrations still
 	// execute (autocomplete lists them after a /reload). Gated on an unseen
 	// name so the steady state costs one Set lookup per skill per turn, not a
 	// re-index (before_agent_start runs every turn).
 	pi.on("before_agent_start", (_event, ctx) => {
-		if (piSkills.some((skill) => !registeredSkillCommands.has(skill.name))) registerSkillCommands(ctx.cwd);
+		if (piSkills.some((skill) => !registeredSkillCommands.has(skill.name) && !oneShotSkillNames.has(skill.name))) registerSkillCommands(ctx.cwd);
 	});
 
-	// Fail-closed backstop for the `input` interception above: pi's steer() and
-	// followUp() expand `/skill:<name>` natively WITHOUT firing an `input` event
-	// (queued interactive messages after the first, RPC steer/followUp), so a
-	// turned-off skill's instructions can land in the session history anyway.
+	// FALLBACK for pi < 0.86.0 (plan.md "Fallbacks for older pi"; delete it
+	// when the peer floor reaches 0.86.0). Before faa9863cb, pi's steer() and
+	// followUp() expanded `/skill:<name>` natively WITHOUT firing an `input`
+	// event (queued interactive messages after the first, RPC steer/followUp),
+	// so a turned-off skill's instructions could land in the session history.
+	// On 0.86+ the `input` handler above refuses them first, so this finds
+	// nothing to redact and returns undefined.
 	// Strip them from every outgoing request instead — the wire copy carries the
 	// refusal notice, the session file keeps the original bytes, and untouched
 	// requests return undefined so the message array stays byte-identical
@@ -421,10 +742,11 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	});
 
 	const buildSkillsRows = (cwd: string | undefined): SkillsRow[] =>
-		index(cwd).map((skill) => ({
+		skillsOnly(cwd).map((skill) => ({
 			key: skillOverrideKey(skill.scope, skill.name),
 			name: skill.name,
-			scope: skill.scope,
+			// The override key keeps the path's scope; the row names the catalog.
+			scope: isBundled(skill.path) ? ("bundled" as const) : skill.scope,
 			tokens: estimateSkillTokens(skill.path),
 			state: skill.state,
 			locked: skill.source === "plugin",
@@ -436,7 +758,7 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	// the skill-overrides store live. Plugin skills show locked (managed via
 	// /plugins). Pure state/render live in ./panel; this owns repaint + writes.
 	const openSkillsPanel = async (ctx: ExtensionContext): Promise<void> => {
-		await ctx.ui.custom<null>((tui, theme, _keybindings, done) => {
+		await panelUi(pi.events, ctx.ui).custom<null>((tui, theme, _keybindings, done) => {
 			const paint: SkillsPaint = { fg: safeThemePaint(theme), bold: safeThemeBold(theme) };
 			const state = initialSkillsState();
 			let rows = buildSkillsRows(ctx.cwd);
@@ -462,7 +784,6 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 					if (!key) return;
 					const before = visibleRows(rows, state);
 					const anchorKey = before[state.cursor]?.key;
-					const sortBefore = state.sort;
 					const effect = applySkillsKey(state, key, before);
 					notice = undefined;
 					if (effect?.kind === "close") {
@@ -478,13 +799,8 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 					} else if (effect?.kind === "locked") {
 						notice = `${effect.row.name} is a plugin skill — manage it from /plugins.`;
 					}
-					// A sort toggle reorders the list; keep the same skill selected so a
-					// following Space acts on the row the user was looking at, not the one
-					// that slid into its index.
-					if (state.sort !== sortBefore && anchorKey) {
-						const idx = visibleRows(rows, state).findIndex((row) => row.key === anchorKey);
-						if (idx >= 0) state.cursor = idx;
-					}
+					// A sort toggle or a cycle under the state sort reorders the list.
+					if ((key.kind === "text" || effect?.kind === "cycle") && anchorKey) followRow(state, visibleRows(rows, state), anchorKey);
 					repaint();
 				},
 				invalidate: () => {
@@ -495,17 +811,20 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 	};
 
 	registerLocalCommand(pi, "skills", {
+		reportsResult: true,
 		description: "View and manage skills (on / name-only / user-only / off)",
 		handler: async (args, ctx) => {
-			if (ctx.hasUI) {
+			if (canShowCustomUi(ctx)) {
 				await openSkillsPanel(ctx);
-				return;
+				return "Skills dialog dismissed";
 			}
+			const readOnly = notifyRpcReadOnly(ctx, "/skills", "change skill states");
+			const withNotice = (text: string) => (readOnly ? `${readOnly}\n${text}` : text);
 			// Non-interactive fallback: a flat listing with each skill's state.
-			const all = index(ctx.cwd);
+			const all = skillsOnly(ctx.cwd);
 			if (all.length === 0) {
 				ctx.ui.notify("No skills available.", "info");
-				return;
+				return withNotice("No skills available.");
 			}
 			const lines = all.map((skill) => {
 				const label = skill.source === "plugin" ? "plugin" : skill.state;
@@ -513,6 +832,7 @@ export default function skillExtension(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
 				return `- ${skill.name} [${label}]${desc}`;
 			});
 			ctx.ui.notify(`Skills:\n${lines.join("\n")}`, "info");
+			return withNotice(`Skills:\n${lines.join("\n")}`);
 		},
 	});
 }