Startup banner 'N skill(s) failed to load' should name the failing skill(s)
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Description
## Problem
When Copilot CLI starts, it may display a banner like:
> ⚠️ 1 skill failed to load
The banner does **not** identify which skill failed. Running `/skills` also doesn't surface the error — every listed skill appears healthy, making it impossible to diagnose without digging into the process log files.
## Current behavior
- The `skills_loaded` telemetry event records `skill_error_count: 1` but no skill names.
- The only way to find the culprit is to grep the log for messages like `Skipping disabled MCP server: computer-use`.
- In this case the "failure" is a built-in MCP server (`computer-use`) that is intentionally disabled behind a feature flag, so the user can't act on it even after finding it.
## Expected behavior
1. **The startup banner should name the failing skill(s):**
`⚠️ 1 skill failed to load: computer-use (disabled)`
2. **`/skills` should have a way to surface errored/skipped skills** — e.g. a separate "Errors" section or a `/skills --errors` flag.
3. **Intentionally disabled built-in servers probably shouldn't count as errors at all** — a disabled-by-feature-flag server is not a user-actionable failure.
## Reproduction
1. Launch `copilot` (v1.0.45, enterprise plan, Windows).
2. Observe the "1 skill failed to load" banner.
3. Run `/skills` — no skill appears broken.
4. Grep the log: `Select-String -Path ~\.copilot\logs\process-*.log -Pattern "Skipping disabled"` → reveals `computer-use`.
## Environment
- Copilot CLI v1.0.45
- Windows 10 (10.0.26200)
- Node v24.15.0
- Enterprise plan
Contributor guide
Research direction
No implementation files or tests are named. Trace the startup banner, the skills_loaded telemetry event, /skills rendering, and disabled MCP server handling; done should include actionable failing-skill names, a way to surface skipped or errored skills, and no error count for intentionally disabled servers.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100