feat: invoke skills as slash commands

.changeset/skill-slash-command.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"kilo-code": minor
+"@kilocode/cli": minor
+---
+
+Invoke skills as slash commands in the CLI TUI and VS Code sidebar. Each skill is available as `/<name>` when the name is free and always as `/skill:<name>`, so you can run a skill directly without going through the skill picker dialog.

packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/components/chat/PromptInput.tsx

@@ -837,6 +837,13 @@ export const PromptInput: Component<PromptInputProps> = (props) => {
                           onMouseEnter={() => slash.setIndex(idx() + offset)}
                         >
                           <span class="slash-command-name">/{cmd.name}</span>
+                          <Show when={cmd.source === "skill" || cmd.source === "mcp"}>
+                            <span class="slash-command-badge" data-source={cmd.source}>
+                              {cmd.source === "skill"
+                                ? language.t("prompt.slash.badge.skill")
+                                : language.t("prompt.slash.badge.mcp")}
+                            </span>
+                          </Show>
                           <Show when={cmd.description}>
                             <span class="slash-command-desc">{cmd.description}</span>
                           </Show>

packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/hooks/useSlashCommand.ts

@@ -113,7 +113,23 @@ export function useSlashCommand(vscode: VSCodeContext, exclude?: Set<string>): S
 
   const commands = (): SlashCommandEntry[] => {
     const names = new Set(client.map((c) => c.name))
-    const filtered = server().filter((c) => !names.has(c.name))
+    // Hide the `/skill:<name>` alias when the bare `/<name>` is actually shown as a skill.
+    // Skills register both forms server-side; showing both would duplicate entries. But if
+    // a client action shadows the bare name, we must keep the alias so the skill stays
+    // reachable.
+    const bareSkillsShown = new Set(
+      server()
+        .filter((c) => c.source === "skill" && !c.name.startsWith("skill:") && !names.has(c.name))
+        .map((c) => c.name),
+    )
+    const filtered = server().filter((c) => {
+      if (names.has(c.name)) return false
+      if (c.source === "skill" && c.name.startsWith("skill:")) {
+        const bare = c.name.slice("skill:".length)
+        if (bareSkillsShown.has(bare)) return false
+      }
+      return true
+    })
     return [...client, ...filtered]
   }
 

packages/kilo-vscode/webview-ui/src/styles/prompt-dropdowns.css

@@ -113,6 +113,29 @@
   font-size: 11px;
 }
 
+.slash-command-badge {
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+  padding: 1px 6px;
+  border-radius: 3px;
+  font-size: 10px;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  letter-spacing: 0.3px;
+  background: var(--vscode-badge-background);
+  color: var(--vscode-badge-foreground);
+  opacity: 0.8;
+}
+
+.slash-command-badge[data-source="skill"] {
+  background: var(--vscode-charts-purple, var(--vscode-badge-background));
+  color: var(--vscode-badge-foreground);
+}
+
+.slash-command-badge[data-source="mcp"] {
+  background: var(--vscode-charts-blue, var(--vscode-badge-background));
+  color: var(--vscode-badge-foreground);
+}
+
 .slash-command-empty {
   padding: 8px 10px;
   font-size: 12px;

packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/tui/component/prompt/autocomplete.tsx

@@ -363,9 +363,22 @@ export function Autocomplete(props: {
   const commands = createMemo((): AutocompleteOption[] => {
     const results: AutocompleteOption[] = [...command.slashes()]
 
+    // kilocode_change start - track skill names already shown under a short alias
+    const skillBareNames = new Set<string>()
+    for (const c of sync.data.command) {
+      if (c.source === "skill" && !c.name.startsWith("skill:")) skillBareNames.add(c.name)
+    }
+    // kilocode_change end
     for (const serverCommand of sync.data.command) {
-      if (serverCommand.source === "skill") continue
-      const label = serverCommand.source === "mcp" ? ":mcp" : ""
+      // kilocode_change start - expose skills; hide the /skill:<name> alias when the bare /<name> is already shown
+      if (
+        serverCommand.source === "skill" &&
+        serverCommand.name.startsWith("skill:") &&
+        skillBareNames.has(serverCommand.name.slice("skill:".length))
+      )
+        continue
+      const label = serverCommand.source === "mcp" ? ":mcp" : serverCommand.source === "skill" ? ":skill" : ""
+      // kilocode_change end
       results.push({
         display: "/" + serverCommand.name + label,
         description: serverCommand.description,

packages/opencode/src/command/index.ts

@@ -156,18 +156,31 @@ export const layer = Layer.effect(
         }
       }
 
+      // kilocode_change start - expose skills as slash commands with /skill:<name> alias
       for (const item of yield* skill.all()) {
-        if (commands[item.name]) continue
-        commands[item.name] = {
-          name: item.name,
+        const aliased = `skill:${item.name}`
+        commands[aliased] = {
+          name: aliased,
           description: item.description,
           source: "skill",
           get template() {
             return item.content
           },
-          hints: [],
+          hints: [item.name],
+        }
+        if (!commands[item.name]) {
+          commands[item.name] = {
+            name: item.name,
+            description: item.description,
+            source: "skill",
+            get template() {
+              return item.content
+            },
+            hints: [aliased],
+          }
         }
       }
+      // kilocode_change end
 
       return {
         commands,

packages/opencode/test/kilocode/skill-slash-command.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+import { afterEach, describe, expect } from "bun:test"
+import { Effect, Layer } from "effect"
+import { Command } from "../../src/command"
+import { Instance } from "../../src/project/instance"
+import * as CrossSpawnSpawner from "../../src/effect/cross-spawn-spawner"
+import { provideTmpdirInstance } from "../fixture/fixture"
+import { testEffect } from "../lib/effect"
+
+const it = testEffect(Layer.mergeAll(Command.defaultLayer, CrossSpawnSpawner.defaultLayer))
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await Instance.disposeAll()
+})
+
+describe("skills as slash commands", () => {
+  it.live("registers the built-in kilo-config skill under both /kilo-config and /skill:kilo-config", () =>
+    provideTmpdirInstance(
+      () =>
+        Effect.gen(function* () {
+          const svc = yield* Command.Service
+          const commands = yield* svc.list()
+
+          const bare = commands.find((c) => c.name === "kilo-config")
+          const aliased = commands.find((c) => c.name === "skill:kilo-config")
+
+          expect(bare).toBeDefined()
+          expect(bare!.source).toBe("skill")
+          expect(aliased).toBeDefined()
+          expect(aliased!.source).toBe("skill")
+          expect(aliased!.description).toBe(bare!.description)
+
+          // Both should resolve to the same skill content.
+          const bareTemplate = yield* Effect.promise(async () => await bare!.template)
+          const aliasedTemplate = yield* Effect.promise(async () => await aliased!.template)
+          expect(bareTemplate).toBe(aliasedTemplate)
+          expect(bareTemplate.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+        }),
+      { git: true },
+    ),
+  )
+
+  it.live("keeps /skill:<name> reachable even when the bare name is shadowed by a user command", () =>
+    provideTmpdirInstance(
+      (dir) =>
+        Effect.gen(function* () {
+          // Write a user command that collides with the built-in kilo-config skill name.
+          yield* Effect.promise(() =>
+            Bun.write(
+              `${dir}/.kilo/command/kilo-config.md`,
+              `---
+description: user override command
+---
+
+user template body
+`,
+            ),
+          )
+
+          const svc = yield* Command.Service
+          const commands = yield* svc.list()
+
+          const bare = commands.find((c) => c.name === "kilo-config")
+          const aliased = commands.find((c) => c.name === "skill:kilo-config")
+
+          expect(bare).toBeDefined()
+          expect(bare!.source).toBe("command")
+          expect(aliased).toBeDefined()
+          expect(aliased!.source).toBe("skill")
+
+          const bareTemplate = yield* Effect.promise(async () => await bare!.template)
+          const aliasedTemplate = yield* Effect.promise(async () => await aliased!.template)
+          expect(bareTemplate).toContain("user template body")
+          expect(aliasedTemplate).not.toBe(bareTemplate)
+        }),
+      { git: true },
+    ),
+  )
+})