fix(v4.0.3): remove 16 vaporware spinner tips for non-existent skills#1082
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These tips reference skills that were never implemented: - /broadcast - no skill exists - /inbox - no skill exists - /headshot - only example images in v2.3, no skill - /hormozi - only a Fabric pattern, not a standalone skill - /javascript-analysis-v2 - never existed - /vuln-management - never existed - /open-source-management - never existed - /clickup - never existed - /dotfiles - never existed - /homebridge-management - existed in v2.3 but not migrated to v4 - /story-explanation - never existed - /speaking - never existed - /social-post - never existed - /data-wastewater-ca - never existed - /telegram - never existed - /bot-check - never existed These tips were added aspirationally but the features were never built, causing user confusion when the commands don't work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…alse Claude Code auto-indexes every SKILL.md in the skills/ tree and advertises each as an invokable slash-command tip. PAI organizes skills hierarchically: top-level SKILL.md files are user-invokable, but 36 nested sub-skills at depth >= 2 are routed to by the parent's Workflow Routing table and are NOT meant to be invoked by the user. Without any marker distinguishing them, Claude Code advertises broken slash commands like /annual-reports, /council, /osint — they appear in the tip system but do nothing meaningful when invoked. 78% false-positive rate on the primary affordance. Fix: set `user-invocable: false` on every nested sub-skill SKILL.md. This is the spec-blessed frontmatter field from the Claude Code Skills documentation (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, "Frontmatter reference" table): user-invocable — Set to `false` to hide from the / menu. Use for background knowledge users shouldn't invoke directly. Default: true. The flag hides the skill from the / menu and tip system. Claude can still route to the sub-skill via the parent's file-path reference (parent's routing table uses Read, not the Skill tool). No structural reorganization or rename required. Changes: - Add `user-invocable: false` to 36 nested sub-skill SKILL.md files across ContentAnalysis, Investigation, Media, Scraping, Security, Thinking, and Utilities parents. - Add section "Sub-Skill Frontmatter (MANDATORY)" to PAI/SKILLSYSTEM.md documenting the rule, rationale, correct frontmatter shape, and validator check. - Update CreateSkill CanonicalizeSkill and ValidateSkill workflows to check for the flag on nested sub-skills as part of structural validation. Scope: all 36 nested sub-skills in Releases/v4.0.3. Older release snapshots (v4.0.0, v4.0.1, v4.0.2) are frozen artifacts and intentionally not touched. Relationship to PR danielmiessler#1082 (vaporware spinner tips): danielmiessler#1082 addresses a separate failure mode — hardcoded spinner tips that reference skill names which never existed as files. This PR addresses tips for sub-skills that DO exist as files but should not be user-invokable. `user-invocable: false` cannot apply to non-existent files, so danielmiessler#1082 remains independently valid. Verification: # Every nested SKILL.md has the flag (must return empty) find Releases/v4.0.3/.claude/skills -mindepth 3 -name SKILL.md \ -exec grep -L '^user-invocable: false$' {} + # No top-level SKILL.md was changed (must return empty) find Releases/v4.0.3/.claude/skills -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 \ -name SKILL.md -exec grep -l '^user-invocable' {} + Both return empty post-commit. No renames, no file moves, no routing changes. Parent skills' Workflow Routing tables still reference `<SubSkill>/SKILL.md` paths as before. The fix is purely additive — 36 single-line frontmatter additions plus documentation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Removes 16 spinner tips that reference skills which don't exist:
/broadcast/inbox/headshot/hormozi/javascript-analysis-v2/vuln-management/open-source-management/clickup/dotfiles/homebridge-management/story-explanation/speaking/social-post/data-wastewater-ca/telegram/bot-checkThese tips were added aspirationally but the features were never built, causing user confusion when the commands don't work.
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Packs/directory — no matching skillsReleases/v4.0.x/.claude/skills/— no matchesTest plan
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