Plugin skills not appearing in autocomplete menu
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 26, 2026 by choisangh Closed Jan 29, 2026
Description
Plugin skills are not appearing in the / autocomplete menu, although they work correctly when manually typed.
Steps to Reproduce
- Create a plugin with skills in
skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.mdstructure - Install the plugin via marketplace
- Type
/to open autocomplete menu - Plugin skills don't appear in the list
Expected Behavior
According to the documentation:
"Custom slash commands have been merged into skills. A file at.claude/commands/review.mdand a skill at.claude/skills/review/SKILL.mdboth create/reviewand work the same way."
Plugin skills should appear in the autocomplete menu just like commands do.
Actual Behavior
- Skills are correctly cached in
~/.claude/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/<plugin>/<version>/skills/ - Skills have valid frontmatter with
nameanddescription - Manually typing
/skill-nameworks correctly - But skills don't appear in the
/autocomplete dropdown
Environment
- Claude Code version: Latest
- OS: Linux (Ubuntu)
- Plugin structure:
plugin/
├── .claude-plugin/
│ └── plugin.json
└── skills/
├── work/
│ └── SKILL.md
├── jira/
│ └── SKILL.md
└── ...
Skill Frontmatter Example
---
name: work
description: PM + Dev + QA integrated orchestrator. Jira integration for full development lifecycle management.
---
Additional Context
plugin.jsondoes not explicitly specifyskillsfield (relying on auto-discovery of defaultskills/directory)- All skills have proper
nameanddescriptionin frontmatter - No
user-invocable: falseordisable-model-invocation: trueset
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