fix(claude): discover enabled installed plugin skills

[maria-rcks]

skills from installed claude plugins (e.g. mattpocock-skills) never appear in the $ picker, even though the native cli loads them.

skill discovery now reads plugins/installed_plugins.json for plugins enabled with enabledPlugins[key] === true in the merged settings files. each enabled install contributes its skills/ directory plus any directories its .claude-plugin/plugin.json declares, named <manifest name>:<frontmatter name> like the native cli. project and local installs only apply in their own workspace. existing precedence, overrides, and invocation flags are unchanged.

builds on @Moinax's installed-manifest and namespace approach from #6453 with @shivamhwp's explicit enablement correction.

verification on blacksmith: ClaudeSkills.test.ts and ClaudeSkillDispatch.test.ts (31 tests), scoped lint, and server typecheck pass. real claude client picker behavior is unverified.

Closes #5622
Fixes #19847

Written by claude-opus-5-5 via Claude Code in T3 Code

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a substantial user-facing capability by discovering and surfacing enabled Claude plugin skills from installed metadata and manifests, with new scope and naming behavior. The production discovery path is materially expanded beyond a small isolated fix, so human review is appropriate.

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Claude skill discovery now includes skills from enabled installed plugins. It selects eligible installations for the current workspace and adds plugin-namespaced skills alongside user and project skills. Skill mention matching accepts namespaced plugin names.

Changes: Claude plugin skill discovery and dispatch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Read plugin enablement settings apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts	Settings loading reads enabledPlugins independently from skillOverrides. Tests cover merged enablement, explicit local disables, and invalid installed-plugin manifests.
Select installed-plugin skill roots apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts	Discovery selects enabled user installs or project/local installs matching the workspace. It handles standard directories, root-level SKILL.md files, and manifest-declared paths. Tests cover cache layouts and install selection.
Integrate plugin skills into discovery apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts	Discovery reads single-skill and directory roots. Plugin skills use a namespace prefix and frontmatter names when available. Tests cover discovered names, metadata, and precedence.
Match namespaced skill mentions apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkillDispatch.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkillDispatch.test.ts	The mention pattern accepts namespaced names with punctuation. Tests cover exact names, aliases, unknown names, and numeric-like tokens.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Discovery as discoverClaudeSkills
  participant Settings as Settings files
  participant Registry as installed_plugins.json
  participant Manifest as Plugin manifest
  participant Skill as SKILL.md
  Discovery->>Settings: Read enabledPlugins and skillOverrides
  Discovery->>Registry: Read installed plugin records
  Discovery->>Manifest: Read declared skill paths for eligible installs
  Discovery->>Skill: Read skill metadata from selected paths

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 552ca

No actionable merge-blocking risk was established in the reviewed changes; enabled plugin skills can be discovered and dispatched using contract-conforming names.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 552ca

Enabled installed plugins become discoverable and explicitly invocable. The inspected paths retain catalog membership, workspace applicability, and invocation controls; no security bypass was established. Full runtime agreement between cached discovery and native plugin loading remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The added reachability concerns enabled cached plugins associated with the configured Claude environment and applicable workspace. Influencing this path requires control of relevant settings, installed-plugin metadata, or plugin files; the inspected change does not itself grant credentials or change execution permissions.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The proposed uncatalogued-command attack path is blocked in the inspected dispatch chain: broader namespaced parsing still requires exact catalog membership, and argument rewriting preserves the selected name. Unknown namespaced mentions remain ordinary input text.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Discovery applies skill overrides and invocation metadata before the adapter constructs its dispatch catalog. Both normal and attachment message paths use names filtered to enabled, user-invocable skills; a broader regex does not independently confer invocation authority.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, verification, known limitations, and linked issues. However, it does not provide the required explicit scope and approval evidence or explain why …	Add a Scope and approval section with the triaged issue or maintainer approval discussion, including the approval comment. If no prior approval is required, explain why this focused bug fix qualifies for the exemption.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		[#5622] discoverClaudeSkills now reads enabled plugin settings and installed-plugin records, then discovers skills from the selected cached install, including manifest-declared roots and root-level …
Out of Scope Changes check		The discovery, settings, manifest, and dispatch changes support [#5622]. Dispatch changes allow names surfaced by the picker to use native plugin names with punctuation. The tests cover these behavior…
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: discovering enabled installed Claude plugin skills.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts:
- Around line 372-377: In the manifest-declared root loop, validate each
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- Around line 520-525: Update the plugin skill naming flow around
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