Settings needed a faster way to find local skills, and the plugin overview was wasting space by forcing summary cards into a tall right rail. Keep skill discovery client-side over the already-loaded list and flatten plugin metrics into a compact header so release notes can point issue #513 at the exact user-facing fix.
Fixes#513
Constraint: Settings skills data is already loaded locally through /api/skills
Rejected: Add server-side skill search | unnecessary API surface for a small local filter
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: narrow
Directive: Keep Settings extension browsing read-only unless an install/edit flow is explicitly added
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Related: #513
Desktop plugin details now route into the shared Skills, Agents, and MCP management surfaces instead of maintaining separate read-only drilldowns. This also extends the desktop/server skill aggregation so plugin-provided skills appear in the shared list, groups MCP entries by source, and preserves detail-view back navigation based on where the user entered the page.
The implementation keeps plugin detail as the high-level capability hub while pushing real inspection into the existing management pages. Disabled plugins no longer expose false navigation paths into shared views, and the agent-browser regression script was expanded to exercise the new end-to-end flows.
Constraint: Shared Agents data only includes enabled plugin agents, so disabled plugins cannot deep-link into agent detail
Rejected: Keep duplicating full Skills/Agents/MCP detail inside Plugin detail | creates divergent UI flows and stale data paths
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: If a detail view can be opened from multiple entry points, keep the return target in store state rather than hardcoding a single back destination
Tested: desktop vitest for plugins/skills/agents/mcp; desktop tsc --noEmit; desktop vite build; server skills API test; agent-browser web regression on plugin->skill/mcp and plugin->agent back navigation
Not-tested: packaged desktop app regression after rebuilding the Tauri bundle
The desktop app previously lost project-level skills in two places: the
settings browser only queried user skills, and the slash-command picker for a
fresh session depended on CLI init state that does not exist before the first
turn. This change makes the skills APIs cwd-aware, falls back to project skill
loading before CLI init, syncs sidebar session deletion with open tabs, and
aligns the empty-session composer styling so the pre-message session UI stays
consistent.
Constraint: Fresh desktop sessions need slash-command discovery before the CLI websocket emits system/init
Constraint: Only repository code should be committed; build artifacts, installs, and /tmp smoke fixtures stay out of git
Rejected: Rebuild slash-command listings from full getCommands() in the sessions API | introduced auth-gated command dependencies unrelated to local skill discovery
Rejected: Unify EmptySession and ChatInput into one full component now | higher regression risk for normal chat interactions than a visual-only hero variant
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Keep pre-message skill discovery keyed to session workDir so project-level .claude/skills remain visible before the first turn
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/sessions.test.ts; cd desktop && bun run test -- --run src/__tests__/skillsSettings.test.tsx src/components/layout/Sidebar.test.tsx src/__tests__/pages.test.tsx src/pages/ActiveSession.test.tsx; cd desktop && bun run lint
Not-tested: Manual desktop smoke test against the rebuilt .app bundle in the local GUI
- Agent list items: replace dot with colored smart_toy icon, bold name
- Agent description: use MarkdownRenderer for rich text support
- Remove max-width constraints on Agent/Skill containers for responsive layout
- Dynamically switch grid columns based on visible group count (single group fills full width)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Improve the desktop Skills browser so SKILL.md metadata renders cleanly and the settings view uses space like a real document browser. Add coverage for the new detail, markdown, and i18n behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- SkillList: grouped display by source with icons and token estimates
- SkillDetail: two-panel layout with file tree navigation + Markdown/code preview
- Settings: integrated Skills tab with auto_awesome icon
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
