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make dollar-mention always clarify item category (skill, app, plugin)#14147

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make dollar-mention always clarify item category (skill, app, plugin)#14147
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Context + Problem

With the introduction of plugins, we now have one more type of $-mentionable item in the TUI's popup menu on $. Apps, skills, and plugins can all have the same user-facing name, and we attempt to distinguish with a category tag suffix, like [App]. This has a few problems:

  • We decide to show tags by the text that will be inserted into the conversation, not the actual user-visible text, so two visibly-identical entries can have no clarifying category tag suffix
  • The category tag is a suffix and commonly gets cut off by long descriptions
  • The skill category tag is currently only displayed on repo skills as [Repo], which is confusing to most users
  • The plugin category tag is currently [<marketplace-name>], which is also confusing to most users
Solution
  • Always show a prefix category tag that is [Skill], [App], or [Plugin]. No conditional rendering or copy.

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I also feel this clarifies the results at-a-glance while you scroll:

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Tests

Added + updated tests (including snapshots), tested locally

@sayan-oai sayan-oai merged commit a5af112 into main Mar 10, 2026
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