[FEATURE] Use # prefix for skills to distinguish from / commands

thanks mate, really appreciate this! 🙏

No prob @mrgoonie - I generated the issue using my /oss:create-cc-issue command/skill. check it out!

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I think this is reasonable - but I would strongly suggest one addition.
at the moment - skills cannot be nested in directories - but commands can.

Allowing skills to be invoked from the command menu - solved a problem I had already solved:

.claude/commands/design/fal.md

---
description: fal.ai image generation (credentials, usage)
skill: .claude/skills/fal-context
---
Load the fal skill for image generation with fal.ai.

Then I had a SKILL.md that contained the meat and potatoes.

At the moment I am using this pattern with user-invocable: false - in the skill frontmatter.

Personally I think skills are kinda pointless. Have you ever tried to get claude to load a skill? - u have to be pretty specific before it clues up.
Thats why i create commands for everything.

If skills can be nested in directories - AND - they work just like commands - then lets do it - but... how about we just call them plugins ? - two thing that are the same but diff names, diff directories? - doesnt sound like this went through a planning meeting.

Also can we go back to the old command sort order? - where project-specific commands come up first in the / menu?

I dont know why but I have a feeling that they will get rid of commands soon 😂

@mrgoonie indeed. I noticed that slash commands are executed withthe Skill() tool now, and Claude refers to them as skills.

how about we just call them plugins ?

Plugins are already a separate concept:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins

two thing that are the same but diff names, diff directories? - doesnt sound like this went through a planning meeting.

See and thumbs up https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16900

Plugins are already a separate concept:

I know, - https://github.com/getskillsdev/fit-skills ( thats mine )

but what is the fundamental difference between ( global ) - user-space - commands/skills and plugins?

Plugins have install mechanism that links to git repos. user-space don't have that.

Moving a plugin in my global-space to a plugin is just a matter of packaging.

If I compare it to the Ruby world - a gem is a gem. it could be a local private gem, or a hosted gem.

I just hope Anthropic thinks this though carefully before nixing commands or skills. - a LOT of people are putting a huge amount of effort into the ecosystem and if Anthropic keeps pulling the rug from under them its going to lose a lot of contributors. I have lost about 50 hours with changes to how command and skills work in the last 6 weeks. The worst part I think - is how claude seems clueless to these changes - stuff just stops working - and you have to explicitly ask claude to web-search its changelog - otherwise it just hallucinates nonsense.

Alternatively, you could use $ (dollar sign) as a prefix. This is what Codex CLI does, and the UX is quite nice:

<img width="1495" height="236" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ee9ae22-5169-48c5-bdc2-8dc81571b453" />

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