Skills from marketplace plugins don't appear in slash command autocomplete

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18365
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17271
3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17524

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Adding another data point: Even within the official superpowers@claude-plugins-official plugin (v4.0.3), autocomplete behavior is inconsistent:

✅ Works: /brainstorming, /systematic-debugging, /test-driven-development
❌ Doesn't work: /using-superpowers, /using-git-worktrees

All skills ARE listed in /help and work when typed fully. The autocomplete just doesn't surface them.

Environment: Claude Code 2.1.12, macOS

just confirming exact same behavior as @mklobucaric on CC v2.1.19

Tested with a local plugin using --plugin-dir (not marketplace):

• Commands in commands/*.md → ✅ appear in fuzzy finder
• Skills in skills/*/SKILL.md → ❌ don't appear

Ruled out:

• YAML quoting (quoted name: and description: fields)
• Hyphens in skill names (tried plugindevguide vs plugin-dev-guide)
• Plugin cache (cleared ~/.claude/plugins/cache/)
• user-invocable: true frontmatter

Conclusion: The fuzzy finder appears to only index the commands/ directory for plugins, ignoring skills/ entirely. This contradicts the documentation stating that commands and skills are now unified.

Environment: Claude Code 2.1.19, macOS Darwin 24.6.0

Additional data point (regression):

Confirmed on Claude Code v2.1.19, macOS Darwin 25.2.0.

Key finding: This is a regression for my plugin. Skills WERE appearing in autocomplete before an uninstall/reinstall cycle. After reinstalling:

• claude plugin list shows plugin enabled ✓
• claude plugin validate passes ✓
• Skills execute correctly when typed directly (e.g., /vibe works) ✓
• Skills appear in Claude's Skill tool context ✓
• Skills do NOT appear in autocomplete ✗

Interesting: The superpowers plugin (installed from a different marketplace) shows in autocomplete fine. My plugin (agentops) with identical skills/*/SKILL.md structure does not.

This suggests the autocomplete index may not be rebuilt/refreshed properly after plugin reinstalls, or there's marketplace-specific behavior.

I am seeing the same issue and I reckon the model used in the slash command/skills could be an issue

Tool search disabled for model 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001': model does not support tool_reference blocks. This feature is only available on Claude Sonnet 4+, Opus 4+, and newer models.

I am seeing the same issue and I reckon the model used in the slash command/skills could be an issue Tool search disabled for model 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001': model does not support tool_reference blocks. This feature is only available on Claude Sonnet 4+, Opus 4+, and newer models.

This is interesting.

I set export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929" in an attempt to force the index to use sonnet and the results where the same.

Tested with a local plugin using --plugin-dir (not marketplace): Commands in commands/*.md → ✅ appear in fuzzy finder Skills in skills/*/SKILL.md → ❌ don't appear Ruled out: YAML quoting (quoted name: and description: fields) Hyphens in skill names (tried plugindevguide vs plugin-dev-guide) Plugin cache (cleared ~/.claude/plugins/cache/) user-invocable: true frontmatter Conclusion: The fuzzy finder appears to only index the commands/ directory for plugins, ignoring skills/ entirely. This contradicts the documentation stating that commands and skills are now unified. Environment: Claude Code 2.1.19, macOS Darwin 24.6.0

## Additional Evidence: Multiple plugins with both commands/ and skills/

Here are plugins that have both directories, which can be used to verify the bug consistently:

| Plugin | commands/ (✅ works) | skills/ (❌ broken) |
|--------|---------------------|---------------------|
| claude-md-management | 1 | 1 |
| hookify | 4 | 1 |
| Notion | 6 | 1 |
| plugin-dev | 1 | 7 |
| superpowers | 3 | 14 |
| session-wrap | 1 | 3 |

### Reproduction steps

1. Install any of these plugins from the marketplace
2. Type / followed by the plugin name (e.g., /hookify:)
3. Observe that only commands/*.md files appear in autocomplete
4. skills/*/SKILL.md entries are missing from autocomplete

### Expected vs Actual

• Expected: Both commands and skills should appear in autocomplete
• Actual: Only commands appear; skills are missing

This confirms that the bug is specifically in how skills/ directories are registered to the autocomplete system, while commands/ handling works
correctly.

Thanks for confirming — yes, this does not appear to be model-related.

The issue seems to be specific to skills distributed via plugins. I narrowed this down by copying a skill (any skill originally distributed through a plugin) into the project/.claude/skills folder and restarting Claude.

Observed behavior:
• The skill copied into the project folder does appear in autocomplete.
• The same skill, from the plugin, does not appear in autocomplete.
• Running /skills confirms that both skills are available to Claude.

This suggests that autocomplete is not picking up skills that are distributed via plugins, even though they are successfully registered and invokable.

It seems to be working for me since 2.1.29, but not prior to this.

just updated, seems to be working as expected for me now too

I havent tried again yet, but its odd its not in the change log

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#2129

Also, are even numbers no longer being released? 2.1.24, 2.1.26, and 2.1.28 arent listed.

Additional data point on Claude Code v2.1.71, macOS Darwin 25.3.0

I maintain ccmagic, a Claude Code plugin with 40 skills distributed via marketplace. Confirming that plugin skills still do not appear in slash command autocomplete or resolve when typed directly.

What we tested

• Plugin installed via marketplace (extraKnownMarketplaces in settings.json)
• Plugin correctly cached at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/ccmagic/ccmagic/2.2.0/
• All skills have user-invocable: true in frontmatter
• /reload-plugins shows the plugin loaded: 17 plugin(s) · 11 command(s) · 31 agent(s)

Results

• Typing /ccmagic:push → "Unknown skill: ccmagic:push"
• No ccmagic skills appear in / autocomplete at all
• The model CAN see and invoke all 40 skills via the Skill tool (they appear in the system prompt's available skills list)
• This confirms the issue is specifically in the client-side slash command resolver, not the model-side Skill tool

Impact

Because users can't invoke plugin skills via /, we had to remove disable-model-invocation: true from all 25 of our action skills (push, merge, deploy, etc.). Without the / path working, the only way for users to trigger these skills is to ask the model — which requires the model to be able to see them. This means we lost the ability to prevent auto-invocation of destructive skills.

See our tracking issue: https://github.com/devondragon/ccmagic/issues/9

Environment

• Claude Code: 2.1.71
• macOS Darwin 25.3.0
• Plugin source: GitHub marketplace (devondragon/ccmagic)

One more note: It appears that the skills are available if you install on the command line instead of with /plugin

Until marketplace skills get proper autocomplete support, here are workarounds:
Workaround 1 — Symlink plugin skills to the local skills directory:

ln -s /path/to/my-marketplace/plugins/my-plugin/skills/my-skill ~/.claude/skills/my-skill

Skills in ~/.claude/skills/ get autocomplete. Symlinks make the same skill appear in both the marketplace (for distribution) and the local directory (for autocomplete).
Workaround 2 — Invoke via the Skill tool directly:
Since the skills load correctly, you can invoke them by typing the full name or asking Claude:

Use the my-skill skill

or

/my-plugin:my-skill

The skill runs — it just won't autocomplete when you start typing /my.
Workaround 3 — Create a thin wrapper skill locally:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/my-skill
cat > ~/.claude/skills/my-skill/SKILL.md << 'EOF'
---
name: my-skill
description: "Wrapper for marketplace my-skill"
---
Use the Skill tool to invoke `my-plugin:my-skill`.
EOF

This gives you autocomplete for a local skill that delegates to the marketplace skill. Slightly redundant but functional.