[FEATURE] Surface CLI-style tips/hints in the VS Code extension panel

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Problem Statement

The CLI shows rotating ※ Tip: hints at session start (keyboard shortcuts, lesser-known slash commands, workflow suggestions). They're genuinely how I discovered a good chunk of what Claude Code can do — things I'd never have found by reading the docs top to bottom.

The graphical panel in the VS Code extension doesn't surface them. The onboarding checklist (hideOnboarding) covers the first-run basics and then disappears, and the walkthrough is a one-shot guided tour. Neither keeps teaching you things three months in, which is exactly what the CLI tips do well.

Proposed Solution

Show the same tip pool in the panel — a discreet line under the prompt box on new conversations, or in the empty state of a fresh session. Ideally with:

• a claudeCode.showTips setting (default true) so it can be turned off
• tips filtered to what actually applies in the extension, since some CLI hints reference features the panel doesn't have (! bash shortcut, tab completion), and the extension has its own worth advertising (Option+K @-mentions, /btw, checkpoint rewind, Focus view, @terminal:name, @browser)

Switching to useTerminal just to get the tips means giving up the side-by-side diffs and the editable plan document, which are the main reasons to use the panel in the first place. Feature discovery shouldn't be the thing that pushes people back to the CLI.

Otherwise: the extension is excellent, and I use it daily. This is the one thing I noticeably lost moving over from the terminal.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Low - Nice to have

Feature Category

Interactive mode (TUI)

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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