feat(web): mention skills in composer placeholder

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What Changed

add $ skill hint on input placeholder

Why

so people who never used these tools know where they skills are

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Mention skills in chat composer placeholder text

Updates the default placeholder in ChatComposer.tsx from Ask anything, @tag files/folders, or use / to show available commands to Ask anything, @tag files/folders, $use skills, or / for commands.

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Low Risk
Low risk UI-only copy change that doesn’t affect chat/composer behavior or data flow.

Overview
Updates the default chat composer placeholder text to explicitly mention using $use skills (alongside @ file tagging and / commands), improving discoverability of skills.

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Verdict: Approved

Single-line copy change updating placeholder text in the chat input to mention the skills feature. No runtime behavior impact.

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