diff --git a/.github/workflows/evals.yml b/.github/workflows/evals.yml
index af953fe9b..f5a0d9e40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/evals.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/evals.yml
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ jobs:
             cp "$REPO/$s/SKILL.md" "$SKILLS_DIR/$s/SKILL.md"
             cp -R "$REPO/$s/sections" "$SKILLS_DIR/$s/sections"
           done
+          # Also register PROJECT-scoped (cwd) skills. claude's interactive TUI
+          # surfaces /slash commands from <cwd>/.claude/skills, and the smokes run
+          # with cwd=$REPO whose .claude/skills is gitignored (absent on a fresh CI
+          # checkout) — the user-dir registration above feeds `claude -p` but the
+          # TUI looks here. No gstack symlink in the project dir: it would point at
+          # its own parent ($REPO). Runtime preamble paths use the user-dir
+          # ~/.claude/skills/gstack symlink above.
+          PROJ_SKILLS="$REPO/.claude/skills"
+          mkdir -p "$PROJ_SKILLS"
+          for s in office-hours plan-ceo-review; do
+            rm -rf "${PROJ_SKILLS:?}/$s"
+            mkdir -p "$PROJ_SKILLS/$s"
+            cp "$REPO/$s/SKILL.md" "$PROJ_SKILLS/$s/SKILL.md"
+            cp -R "$REPO/$s/sections" "$PROJ_SKILLS/$s/sections"
+          done
           echo "--- registry under $SKILLS_DIR ---"
           ls -la "$SKILLS_DIR/gstack" "$SKILLS_DIR/office-hours" "$SKILLS_DIR/plan-ceo-review"
           # Fail fast if any committed target moved/renamed — a dangling symlink