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+# clide feature requests
+
+Pre-triage inbox for feature ideas surfaced from consumer use. Accepted
+items move into the planning dataset (`pql ticket new …`); this file is
+the scratchpad before that, not a parallel backlog. (Same convention as
+pql's `feature-request.md`, pointed the other way.)
+
+---
+
+## FR-1 — Settings-panel option: per-repo preset PATH *(accepted → D-106 / T-511, 2026-07-13)*
+
+Moved into the planning dataset: decision
+[D-106](governance/decisions/tooling.md#d-106-per-workspace-path-preset-prepended-at-spawn)
+and ticket T-511 (shipped). Kept here as a tombstone per this file's
+convention; the problem, proposal, and design constraints are captured
+in the D-record.
+
+---
+
+## FR-2 — Lead the `clide` skill `description` with `clide capabilities`
+
+- **Status:** proposed
+- **Source:** settled-reach estate-cleanup session, 2026-07-13 — de-forking
+  the hand-copied `clide` skill back to canonical surfaced a description
+  improvement in the consumer's fork worth keeping.
+- **Severity:** low; discoverability wording, not a functional gap.
+
+### Problem
+
+The canonical `.claude/skills/clide/SKILL.md` `description` names the
+triggers but not the *first move*. settled-reach's drifted copy had a
+sharper opening that named `clide capabilities` as the entry action and the
+`clide`-on-PATH + `CLIDE_SOCK` mechanics inline. Syncing that copy back to
+canonical (de-forking) drops the improvement unless it's adopted here. The
+skill *body* already says "discover the surface first → `clide capabilities`",
+but the `description` — what an agent reads when *deciding* whether to invoke
+the skill — buries that lead.
+
+### Proposal
+
+Fold the fork's opening into the canonical `description` frontmatter:
+
+> clide is the IDE hosting this session; it puts `clide` on your PATH and a
+> per-workspace socket in `CLIDE_SOCK`. Start with `clide capabilities` to
+> enumerate the live tool surface.
+
+Pure frontmatter wording; no behavior change.
+
+---
+
+*Logged from a settled-reach session (consuming the clide skill), not
+authored in a clide session — review and triage/commit from clide.*