Repo-local Claude Code skills (.claude/skills) do not appear in T3 Code skill picker #8449

Bug description

Repo-local Claude Code skills (.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md, symlinked from .agents/skills/) are visible to the Claude CLI directly (/reload-skills reports them as available) but never appear in T3 Code's skill picker for that project.

This looks like the same root cause as #3040, for a different provider: T3 Code's per-provider skill cache doesn't include repo-local skills at all, only global/plugin skills.

Evidence

~/.t3/caches/claudeAgent.json lists exactly 7 skills, all global/plugin-installed (find-skills, i-have-adhd, orca-cli, orca-linear, orchestration, sanity-best-practices, sanity-migration). It does not include either of the two project-local skills that exist in the repo (craft-eager-loading, merge-to-stage), even though:

• The cache file's mtime is after the project skill files were last written to disk (cache regenerated later, so it isn't a stale/one-time-scan timing issue).
• The Claude CLI (/reload-skills) reports these two skills as available in the same project directory at the same time.

So the Claude provider cache appears to only capture global/plugin skill sources, never scanning the project's own .claude/skills (or its .agents/skills symlink target).

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a project-local skill: .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md, with .claude/skills symlinked to .agents/skills per the Agent Skills convention.
2. Open the project in the Claude CLI directly; confirm the skill is discovered (/reload-skills or asking Claude to list available skills).
3. Open the same project in T3 Code and open the skill picker ($/@).
4. Expected: the project-local skill appears alongside global/plugin skills.
5. Actual: only global/plugin skills appear; project-local skills are absent from ~/.t3/caches/claudeAgent.json and the picker.

Related

• [Bug]: Repo-local Codex skills do not appear in T3 Code $ skill picker #3040 (same failure mode, Codex provider + .agents/skills)
• [Bug]: Cursor/OpenCode skill discovery returns zero skills despite skills existing on disk (Claude/Codex discover them fine) #2736 (broader provider-cache discovery inconsistency, Cursor/OpenCode)

Happy to share the (redacted) cache file contents or repo structure if useful for triage.