Feature request: Indicate when a skill is being used

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Dec 13, 2025 by wordify-nick Closed Dec 15, 2025

Summary

When Claude responds using a skill from .claude/skills/, there's no indication to the user that a skill is being applied. It would be helpful to see which skill (if any) is guiding the response.

Current Behavior

  • Skills are loaded silently from .claude/skills/
  • Responses that use skills look identical to responses inferred from context
  • No way to verify if a skill was actually used
  • /skills command doesn't exist to list loaded skills

Desired Behavior

Some indication when a skill is active, e.g.:

> Reggie, how's my backlog?

⏺ Using skill: reggie-backlog-health

⏺ Bash(python reggie.py health --all)
...

Or a /skills command to list loaded skills and their trigger patterns.

Why This Matters

  • Debugging: Hard to tell if a skill isn't working or just not triggering
  • Trust: Users can't verify their skill customizations are being applied
  • Development: When building skills, feedback on activation helps iteration

Environment

  • Claude Code v2.0.69
  • macOS

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