Consider merging Skills and Slash Commands
Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Dec 5, 2025 by ykdojo Closed Jan 10, 2026
Skills and Slash Commands seem to function almost identically:
- Both can be invoked by the user with a slash prefix
- Both can be invoked by Claude itself
- Both load instructions into the conversation
The main difference appears to be intent (skills = Claude-invoked primarily, commands = user-invoked primarily), but in practice they work the same way.
Would it simplify things to merge these into a single feature? Perhaps with a flag to control whether it appears in autocomplete or is primarily model-invoked?
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