Auto-discover repo skills/commands in spinner tips
Feature Request
Problem
The spinnerTipsOverride setting only accepts a static list of strings. In large repositories with many custom skills (e.g., 100+ skills in .claude/skills/), manually maintaining a tip list is impractical and gets stale as skills are added/removed.
Proposed Solution
Auto-discover skills from .claude/skills/ (and user-level skills) and dynamically include them in spinner tips. Each skill's SKILL.md frontmatter already has name and description — these could be used to generate tips like:
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Suggested Behavior
- When
spinnerTipsEnabled: true, automatically include discovered skills/commands alongside built-in tips - A new setting like
spinnerTipsAutoDiscover: truecould control this behavior excludeDefaultand manualtipsentries should still work alongside auto-discovered ones- Tips could be generated from skill frontmatter:
Use /<skill-name> to <description>
Why This Matters
Repositories with many team-specific skills benefit from passive discoverability — developers learn about available workflows just by using Claude Code, without needing to run / and scroll through the menu. This is especially valuable for onboarding new team members.
Current Workaround
Script that scans .claude/skills/ for SKILL.md files and writes entries into settings.json, but this requires manual re-running when skills change.
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