diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.test.ts
index d5f7074e5d13..c177e2f50662 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.test.ts
@@ -74,8 +74,14 @@ describe('inline skill references', () => {
     expect(skills('roughly 3 /4 of it')).toEqual([])
   })
 
-  it('does not chip a leading slash — that is a command invocation, not prose', () => {
-    expect(skills('/clean')).toEqual([])
+  it('chips a leading slash, which now reaches the transcript as a skill invocation', () => {
+    // #71664 asserted the opposite, and was right at the time: a leading slash
+    // only ever EXECUTED, so it never reached a rendered message as text —
+    // the turn that reached the bubble was the expanded skill body. Projecting
+    // a skill turn back onto `/work fix it` changes that precondition, so the
+    // invocation now has to chip like any other skill reference.
+    expect(skills('/clean')).toEqual(['/clean'])
+    expect(skills('/work fix the leak')).toEqual(['/work'])
   })
 
   it('parses a skill chip alongside an @ reference', () => {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
index f04340c5d6e1..418f59eda717 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/directive-text.tsx
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ const HERMES_DIRECTIVE_RE = new RegExp(
 // pills, so the sent message renders them as pills too rather than flattening
 // back to raw text.
 //
+// #71664 deliberately excluded a LEADING slash, and was right then: a command
+// only ever executed, so it never reached a rendered message as text. Skill
+// turns now project back onto their invocation, so that precondition is gone
+// and `^` joins the lookbehind.
+//
 // Unlike the composer's caret-anchored trigger, this scans finished text, so
 // it must reject a token that continues into a path: `/usr/local/bin` would
 // otherwise chip as `/usr`. `(?![\w-]*\/)` requires the token to end at