diff --git a/ui-tui/src/__tests__/inlineSlashSkill.test.ts b/ui-tui/src/__tests__/inlineSlashSkill.test.ts
index d2f81b7059f04..61578fce682ac 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/__tests__/inlineSlashSkill.test.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/__tests__/inlineSlashSkill.test.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,28 @@ describe('completionRequestForInput — inline skill references', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('completes a second slash in a line that starts with a command', () => {
+    // Only the first slash is an invocation. Routing the whole line to the
+    // completer offered nothing, so `/work /cle` went dead while
+    // `do /work then /cle` completed fine.
+    expect(completionRequestForInput('/work /cle')).toMatchObject({
+      method: 'complete.slash',
+      params: { text: '/cle' },
+      replaceFrom: 7,
+      skillsOnly: true
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('leaves a command own arguments to the command', () => {
+    for (const input of ['/personality alic', '/cron ad', '/details ']) {
+      expect(completionRequestForInput(input)).toEqual({
+        method: 'complete.slash',
+        params: { text: input },
+        replaceFrom: 1
+      })
+    }
+  })
+
   it('routes a real mid-message path to path completion, not skills', () => {
     expect(completionRequestForInput('open src/foo/ba')).toMatchObject({ method: 'complete.path' })
     expect(completionRequestForInput('open /usr/lo')).toMatchObject({ method: 'complete.path' })
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts b/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
index 468c8995b0330..cb9572f261500 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
@@ -41,15 +41,13 @@ export function completionRequestForInput(
     return null
   }
 
-  if (isSlashCommand) {
-    return { method: 'complete.slash', params: { text: input }, replaceFrom: 1 }
-  }
-
-  // A `/token` mid-message is a skill reference dropped into prose. It's only
-  // reachable here because the path branch below would otherwise claim it: a
-  // bare `/cle` matches TAB_PATH_RE as an absolute path. Skills win that tie —
-  // the moment a second `/` is typed the inline trigger stops matching and
-  // path completion takes back over.
+  // A `/token` mid-message is a skill reference dropped into prose. Detected
+  // BEFORE the leading-command shape because only the first slash can be an
+  // invocation — `/help /cle` is a command whose argument names a skill, and
+  // routing the whole line to the backend's completer offered nothing at all.
+  // It only matches a whitespace-preceded slash sitting at the caret, so
+  // ordinary argument completion (`/cron ad`, `/personality alic`) is
+  // untouched.
   const inline = inlineSlashTrigger(input)
 
   if (inline) {
@@ -61,6 +59,10 @@ export function completionRequestForInput(
     }
   }
 
+  if (isSlashCommand) {
+    return { method: 'complete.slash', params: { text: input }, replaceFrom: 1 }
+  }
+
   if (!pathWord) {
     return null
   }