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On every turn, the analyst detects skill references in the prompt (<chat-reference>type="skill" skill="..."</chat-reference>) and pre-invokes load_skill once per distinct referenced skill that exists and applies to the analyst, before the model's turn. Unknown skills and skills for other agents are ignored; always-apply skills already pre-loaded on the first turn aren't loaded again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Typing "/" in an analyst chat (project, dashboard, and embed) opens a picker listing the project's Skill resources that apply to the analyst, showing name and description. Picking one writes a <chat-reference>type="skill" skill="..."</chat-reference> tag into the prompt text -- the same tag the runtime resolves via load_skill -- and it renders as a chip both while typing and when the conversation is reloaded. A dedicated / button next to the existing @ button opens the same picker, adding a space first when the cursor sits right after a word. The "/" trigger is a second suggestion on the same Mention node as "@", so both share the parsing and serialization of chat-reference tags, the two pickers never open at once, and both follow Suggestion's default prefixes: a slash inside a word, as in a date or a path, stays text. The context picker takes the source of its options and whether several are picked, so the skills picker reuses it as a single-choice list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hey @nishantmonu51,
We were working on a similar feature, but your approach in #9851 is better integrated with the developer agent, so we'd like to contribute this piece on top of it: letting the user explicitly invoke a Skill from the chat. Feel free to modify, adapt or discard it, or suggest changes.
/in an analyst chat opens a picker with the project's Skills whoseagentsincludeanalyst. A/button next to@opens it too./is a second suggestion on the same Mention node as@, so both share serialization.<chat-reference>type="skill" skill="…"</chat-reference>into the prompt, the same tag@already writes for other reference kinds, so it renders as a chip while typing and when the conversation is reloaded.AnalystAgentscans each prompt for skill references and callsload_skillonce per referenced skill before the model's turn, skipping unknown skills, skills that don't apply to the analyst, and skills already loaded in the conversation.load_skillpath the model already uses, instead of depending on the model to honor the reference.referencedSkillsinruntime/ai/skill_references.go). We kept the reference in the prompt because that is what gets persisted and re-rendered as a chip, but if you'd rather have it as an explicit field onAnalystAgentContext, or want<chat-reference>specified as a shared format with the Go parser as its reference implementation, we're happy to change it.Developed in collaboration with Claude Code