[FEATURE]: Recursive skill discovery + multi-skill selection in TUI

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Feature Request: Recursive skill discovery and multi-skill selection

Problem

The skills command only discovers skills at the root level (no recursive lookup).
Only a single skill can be selected per request.

Use Case

Projects with structured skill directories:
project-a/skills/backend/auth.md
project-a/skills/backend/database.md
project-b/skills/frontend/ui.md

Nested skills are not detected
It is not possible to combine skills (e.g. auth + database)

Proposal

Recursive discovery
- Load skills using recursive directory scanning (/skills/**/*.md)
Multi-skill selection
- Allow selecting multiple skills in a single request:
  /use auth,database

Expected Behavior

skills lists all skills recursively
Multiple skills can be selected and applied in one request

Considerations

Context/token limits when combining skills
Conflict resolution between skills

Question

Would you accept:

Recursive skill loading as a first step
Multi-skill support as a follow-up (separate PRs)

+1 to this

Seconded!

A source-code level analysis of the repo would suggest that recursive skill discovery is already implemented (but not in a way that will match your skills).

V1 (I think this is what is actively being used right now):

const EXTERNAL_SKILL_PATTERN = "skills/**/SKILL.md"
const OPENCODE_SKILL_PATTERN = "{skill,skills}/**/SKILL.md"
const SKILL_PATTERN = "**/SKILL.md"

V2:

.glob("{*.md,**/SKILL.md}", { cwd: directory, absolute: true, include: "file", symlink: true, dot: true })

These snippets are from commit 4ed4f749e644ffb5b279fb30b7b915e743d80142 , the commit used for building v1.17.7 .

As to why it is implemented this way, I have previously seen other people use files not named SKILL.md to denote docs related to a skill. See this.

Note: I'm not an OpenCode contributor. My own PRs/issues have gone ghosted. Maybe I've been flagged as AI?

I think recursive discovery and multi-skill selection are two separate things.

Recursive discovery may already be partially implemented depending on the expected SKILL.md structure.

The main UX pain for me is multi-skill selection from /skills.

Instead of typing:

/use auth,database

I think a better UX would be:

/skills

Then:

Space toggles skills
Enter applies selected skills
Prompt shows [2 skills selected]
Selected skills are injected as context on submit
Selection clears after submit

This solves the real use case: applying multiple skills to one prompt without chaining slash commands manually.

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[FEATURE]: Recursive skill discovery + multi-skill selection in TUI #21495

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