diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.test.ts
index 17d7fba8650..885d9fc90af 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.test.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,25 @@ describe('claude slash command catalog', () => {
     ])
   })
 
+  it('keeps a project skill a skill after the agent cds out of the launch folder', () => {
+    // Captured on 2.1.280: after `cd` into an --add-dir, `skills` drops the launch folder's
+    // project skills while `slash_commands` still lists them.
+    const catalog = new ClaudeSlashCommandCatalog(
+      init({ cwd: '/repo', slash_commands: ['qa-project'], skills: ['qa-project'] })
+    )
+    catalog.observe(
+      init({
+        cwd: '/scratch',
+        slash_commands: ['qa-project', 'found-here'],
+        skills: ['found-here']
+      })
+    )
+    expect(catalog.commands).toEqual([
+      { name: 'qa-project', kind: 'skill' },
+      { name: 'found-here', kind: 'skill' }
+    ])
+  })
+
   it('notices a name that only changed kind', () => {
     const catalog = new ClaudeSlashCommandCatalog(
       init({ slash_commands: ['review'], skills: [], terminal_slash_commands: [] })
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.ts
index 2a4d91260f0..141b2847592 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-slash-command-catalog.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ export function readClaudeSlashCommands(
 export class ClaudeSlashCommandCatalog {
   private entries: AgentSessionSlashCommand[] | undefined
   private hasSkillClassification = false
+  /** The folder the first catalog frame reported: the one the session's own `/` list was loaded for. */
+  private launchCwd: string | undefined
   private hidden = new Set<string>()
   private commandNames = new Set<string>()
   private details = new Map<string, CommandDetail>()
@@ -136,6 +138,23 @@ export class ClaudeSlashCommandCatalog {
     return this.entries
   }
 
+  /** Why: the CLI lists `skills` for the frame's `cwd`, which follows the agent's `cd`, but
+   *  `slash_commands` for the session, so only a launch-folder frame may change a known kind. */
+  private classify(message: Record<string, unknown>): AgentSessionSlashCommand[] {
+    const reported = readClaudeSlashCommands(message)
+    const cwd = typeof message.cwd === 'string' ? message.cwd : undefined
+    this.launchCwd ??= cwd
+    if (cwd === undefined || cwd === this.launchCwd) {
+      return reported
+    }
+    const known = new Map(
+      (this.entries ?? [])
+        .filter((entry) => !entry.kindUnspecified)
+        .map((entry) => [entry.name, entry.kind])
+    )
+    return reported.map((entry) => ({ ...entry, kind: known.get(entry.name) ?? entry.kind }))
+  }
+
   /** Provider row text, carried across the name-only frames that never restate it. */
   private describe(entries: AgentSessionSlashCommand[]): AgentSessionSlashCommand[] {
     return entries.map((entry) => ({ ...entry, ...this.details.get(entry.name) }))
@@ -147,7 +166,7 @@ export class ClaudeSlashCommandCatalog {
     if (carriesCommandCatalog(message)) {
       this.hasSkillClassification = true
       this.hidden = new Set(names(message.terminal_slash_commands))
-      next = this.describe(readClaudeSlashCommands(message))
+      next = this.describe(this.classify(message))
       this.commandNames = new Set(
         next.filter((entry) => entry.kind === 'command').map((entry) => entry.name)
       )