diff --git a/tests/tui_gateway/test_slash_fuzzy.py b/tests/tui_gateway/test_slash_fuzzy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..287019d91b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tui_gateway/test_slash_fuzzy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+"""Tests for the description-aware slash fuzzy scorer (grok-cli port).
+
+Covers ``tui_gateway.slash_fuzzy`` (scoring tiers, catalog merge, stable
+ordering) and how ``_rank_slash_completions`` consumes the ``score_of``
+lookup: skill rows sort by fuzzy score first, then usage, then name.
+"""
+
+import math
+
+from tui_gateway.server import _rank_slash_completions
+from tui_gateway.slash_fuzzy import (
+    fuzzy_rank_slash_items,
+    normalize_slash_search_query,
+    score_slash_completion_item,
+    tokenize_search_text,
+)
+
+
+def _item(text, meta="", kind="command"):
+    return {"text": text, "display": text, "meta": meta, "kind": kind}
+
+
+def test_normalize_slash_search_query():
+    assert normalize_slash_search_query(" /Model ") == "model"
+    assert normalize_slash_search_query("//help") == "help"
+    assert normalize_slash_search_query("plain") == "plain"
+
+
+def test_tokenize_search_text_includes_full_value_and_words():
+    assert tokenize_search_text("Commit & Push") == ["commit & push", "commit", "push"]
+
+
+def test_score_tiers_name_before_description():
+    item = _item("/recaps ", "Turn session recaps on/off")
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "recaps") == 0
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "rec") == 1
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "caps") == 2
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "session") == 3
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "sess") == 4
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "essio") == 5
+    assert math.isinf(score_slash_completion_item(item, "zzz"))
+
+
+def test_name_match_beats_description_match():
+    # "recap" hits the description too, but the name tier must win.
+    item = _item("/recap", "Turn session recaps on/off")
+    assert score_slash_completion_item(item, "recap") == 0
+
+
+def test_fuzzy_rank_merges_description_matches_from_catalog():
+    prefix_hits = [_item("/summon")]
+    catalog = [
+        _item("/summon"),
+        _item("/recaps", "Show a summary of the session"),
+        _item("/help", "Show available commands"),
+    ]
+    ranked, score_of = fuzzy_rank_slash_items(prefix_hits, catalog, "summ")
+
+    texts = [item["text"] for item in ranked]
+    assert texts == ["/summon", "/recaps"]  # name prefix (1) before description (4)
+    assert score_of(ranked[0]) == 1
+    assert score_of(ranked[1]) == 4
+    assert math.isinf(score_of(_item("/help", "Show available commands")))
+
+
+def test_fuzzy_rank_is_stable_within_a_tier():
+    items = [_item("/mod-b"), _item("/mod-a")]
+    ranked, _ = fuzzy_rank_slash_items(items, [], "mod")
+    assert [item["text"] for item in ranked] == ["/mod-b", "/mod-a"]
+
+
+def test_fuzzy_rank_drops_non_matching_prefix_rows():
+    ranked, _ = fuzzy_rank_slash_items([_item("/other")], [], "model")
+    assert ranked == []
+
+
+def test_rank_slash_completions_uses_score_before_usage():
+    # Without a scorer, usage sorts skills; with one, score leads and usage
+    # only breaks ties within a tier.
+    name_hit = _item("/summarize", "Condense text", kind="skill")
+    desc_hit = _item("/notes", "Write a summary of a meeting", kind="skill")
+    items = [desc_hit, name_hit]
+
+    usage = {"notes": 50, "summarize": 1}.get
+
+    def usage_of(name):
+        return usage(name, 0)
+
+    def origin_of(_name):
+        return "user"
+
+    scores = {id(name_hit): 1.0, id(desc_hit): 4.0}
+
+    ranked = _rank_slash_completions(
+        items,
+        usage_of,
+        origin_of,
+        browsing=False,
+        score_of=lambda item: scores.get(id(item), math.inf),
+    )
+    assert [item["text"] for item in ranked] == ["/summarize", "/notes"]
+
+    # Sanity: without score_of the heavier-used skill leads.
+    ranked_plain = _rank_slash_completions(items, usage_of, origin_of, browsing=False)
+    assert [item["text"] for item in ranked_plain] == ["/notes", "/summarize"]
+
+
+def test_rank_slash_completions_ties_break_on_usage_then_name():
+    a = _item("/beta", kind="skill")
+    b = _item("/alpha", kind="skill")
+    items = [a, b]
+
+    ranked = _rank_slash_completions(
+        items,
+        lambda name: {"alpha": 3, "beta": 3}.get(name, 0),
+        lambda _name: "user",
+        browsing=False,
+        score_of=lambda item: 1.0,
+    )
+    assert [item["text"] for item in ranked] == ["/alpha", "/beta"]
diff --git a/tui_gateway/methods_complete.py b/tui_gateway/methods_complete.py
index 701c11f0ea..5601a330e4 100644
--- a/tui_gateway/methods_complete.py
+++ b/tui_gateway/methods_complete.py
@@ -266,9 +266,39 @@ def _(rid, params: dict) -> dict:
         # An argument stage (`/personality `, `/details c`) keeps the order
         # its own command chose.
         if text.rsplit(" ", 1)[-1].startswith("/"):
+            score_of = None
+            # Description-aware fuzzy scoring (ported from grok-cli's slash
+            # menu) at the command-token stage: the completer above only
+            # emits name-prefix matches, so merge in catalog entries whose
+            # name SUBSTRING or DESCRIPTION words match the query — typing
+            # `/summary` surfaces a command whose description mentions
+            # summaries. Command matches always outrank description matches.
+            if " " not in text and len(text) > 1:
+                from tui_gateway.slash_fuzzy import (
+                    fuzzy_rank_slash_items,
+                    normalize_slash_search_query,
+                )
+
+                universe = [
+                    {
+                        "text": c.text,
+                        "display": to_plain_text(c.display) if c.display else c.text,
+                        "meta": to_plain_text(c.display_meta) if c.display_meta else "",
+                        "kind": (
+                            "skill"
+                            if c.text.strip().lstrip("/").lower() in skill_names
+                            else "command"
+                        ),
+                    }
+                    for c in completer.get_completions(Document("/", 1), None)
+                ]
+                items, score_of = fuzzy_rank_slash_items(
+                    items, universe, normalize_slash_search_query(text)
+                )
+
             usage, origin_of = _skill_usage_lookup()
             items = _rank_slash_completions(
-                items, usage, origin_of, browsing=text == "/"
+                items, usage, origin_of, browsing=text == "/", score_of=score_of
             )
         else:
             items = items[:_SLASH_COMPLETION_LIMIT]
diff --git a/tui_gateway/server.py b/tui_gateway/server.py
index 2a5c81e91c..0b776f0354 100644
--- a/tui_gateway/server.py
+++ b/tui_gateway/server.py
@@ -11975,6 +11975,7 @@ def _rank_slash_completions(
     origin_of,
     *,
     browsing: bool,
+    score_of=None,
 ) -> list[dict]:
     """Rank and bound slash completions the way the menu should read.
 
@@ -11984,6 +11985,12 @@ def _rank_slash_completions(
     of skills someone invokes daily lead the ones that shipped with Hermes
     and were never opened.
 
+    ``score_of`` (optional) is the fuzzy-match scorer from
+    :func:`tui_gateway.slash_fuzzy.fuzzy_rank_slash_items` — when a typed
+    query produced scores, they lead the skill sort so a name match beats a
+    description match before usage breaks ties. Commands arrive already
+    score-sorted and keep their order either way.
+
     The limit is spent PER KIND rather than on one flat truncation. A flat
     cut is positional, not editorial: the completer emits every registry
     command before the first skill, so on a 230-skill install a bare ``/``
@@ -12010,7 +12017,12 @@ def _rank_slash_completions(
             if origin_of(name_of(item)) != "bundled" or usage(name_of(item)) > 0
         ]
 
-    skills.sort(key=lambda item: (-usage(name_of(item)), name_of(item)))
+    if score_of is not None:
+        skills.sort(
+            key=lambda item: (score_of(item), -usage(name_of(item)), name_of(item))
+        )
+    else:
+        skills.sort(key=lambda item: (-usage(name_of(item)), name_of(item)))
 
     return commands[:_SLASH_COMPLETION_LIMIT] + skills[:_SLASH_COMPLETION_LIMIT]
 
diff --git a/tui_gateway/slash_fuzzy.py b/tui_gateway/slash_fuzzy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..254b811e3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tui_gateway/slash_fuzzy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+"""Description-aware fuzzy scoring for slash-menu completions.
+
+Ported from superagent-ai/grok-cli ``src/ui/slash-menu.ts`` (mirrored on the
+TUI client in ``ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.ts``): candidates are scored
+in tiers — exact match on the command token (0), prefix (1), substring (2) —
+and the DESCRIPTION text is tokenized and matched at a +3 offset (exact word
+3, word prefix 4, word substring 5). Typing ``/summary`` thus surfaces a
+command whose description mentions summaries even though no command name
+starts with it. Lower score wins; ``math.inf`` means no match.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import math
+import re
+from typing import Callable
+
+_TOKEN_SPLIT = re.compile(r"[^a-z0-9]+")
+
+
+def tokenize_search_text(value: str) -> list[str]:
+    """Lowercase ``value`` and return it alongside its alphanumeric words."""
+    normalized = value.lower()
+    return [normalized, *[t for t in _TOKEN_SPLIT.split(normalized) if t]]
+
+
+def normalize_slash_search_query(query: str) -> str:
+    """Trim, drop leading slashes, lowercase — ``/Model`` and ``model`` alike."""
+    return query.strip().lstrip("/").lower()
+
+
+def _score_fields(fields: list[str], query: str, offset: int) -> float:
+    for field in fields:
+        if field == query or f"/{field}" == query:
+            return offset
+    for field in fields:
+        if field.startswith(query) or f"/{field}".startswith(query):
+            return offset + 1
+    for field in fields:
+        if query in field:
+            return offset + 2
+    return math.inf
+
+
+def score_slash_completion_item(item: dict, query: str) -> float:
+    """Score one completion item dict (``text`` + ``meta``) against ``query``.
+
+    ``text`` is the replacement token (may carry a leading slash or trailing
+    space); ``meta`` is the human description. Lower is better; ``math.inf``
+    means no match at all.
+    """
+    name = str(item.get("text", "")).strip().lstrip("/")
+    command_fields = tokenize_search_text(name)
+    description_fields = tokenize_search_text(str(item.get("meta", "")))
+    return min(
+        _score_fields(command_fields, query, 0),
+        _score_fields(description_fields, query, 3),
+    )
+
+
+def fuzzy_rank_slash_items(
+    items: list[dict], catalog: list[dict], query: str
+) -> tuple[list[dict], Callable[[dict], float]]:
+    """Merge description/substring matches into ``items`` and sort by score.
+
+    ``items`` are the completer's own (prefix-filtered) rows and keep their
+    identity; ``catalog`` is the full command/skill universe, from which any
+    entry the prefix filter missed but the fuzzy scorer matches is appended.
+    Returns the score-sorted rows (stable within a tier) plus a ``score_of``
+    lookup for downstream rankers to use as a leading sort key.
+    """
+    seen = {str(item.get("text", "")).strip() for item in items}
+    merged = list(items)
+    for item in catalog:
+        if str(item.get("text", "")).strip() in seen:
+            continue
+        if not math.isinf(score_slash_completion_item(item, query)):
+            merged.append(item)
+
+    scores: dict[int, float] = {}
+    scored: list[tuple[float, int, dict]] = []
+    for index, item in enumerate(merged):
+        score = score_slash_completion_item(item, query)
+        if math.isinf(score):
+            continue
+        scores[id(item)] = score
+        scored.append((score, index, item))
+    scored.sort(key=lambda entry: (entry[0], entry[1]))
+
+    ranked = [item for _, _, item in scored]
+    return ranked, lambda item: scores.get(id(item), math.inf)
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/app/createSlashHandler.ts b/ui-tui/src/app/createSlashHandler.ts
index f0d38257e2..3a354c3ef2 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/app/createSlashHandler.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/app/createSlashHandler.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { launchWidget } from '../sdk/host.js'
 import { getWidgetApp } from '../sdk/registry.js'
 
 import type { SlashHandlerContext } from './interfaces.js'
+import { scoreSlashMenuItem } from './slash/fuzzyScore.js'
 import { findSlashCommand } from './slash/registry.js'
 import type { SlashRunCtx } from './slash/types.js'
 import { getUiState } from './uiStore.js'
@@ -69,13 +70,19 @@ export function createSlashHandler(ctx: SlashHandlerContext): (cmd: string) => b
           return handler(`${exact}${argTail}`)
         }
       } else {
-        const matches = [
-          ...new Set(
-            Object.entries(catalog.canon)
-              .filter(([alias]) => alias.startsWith(needle))
-              .map(([, canon]) => canon)
-          )
-        ]
+        // Tiered name scoring (ported from grok-cli's slash menu): prefix
+        // matches rank above substring matches, so `/hea` still resolves to
+        // /heartbeat while `/beat` now finds it too instead of dead-ending.
+        // Only the best tier survives — a substring hit never widens an
+        // unambiguous prefix hit into an "ambiguous command" complaint.
+        // Description tiers (score >= 3) are a completion-menu concern and
+        // never auto-execute a command here.
+        const scored = Object.entries(catalog.canon)
+          .map(([alias, canon]) => ({ canon, score: scoreSlashMenuItem({ id: alias.slice(1) }, needle.slice(1)) }))
+          .filter(entry => entry.score < 3)
+
+        const best = Math.min(...scored.map(entry => entry.score))
+        const matches = [...new Set(scored.filter(entry => entry.score === best).map(entry => entry.canon))]
 
         if (matches.length === 1 && matches[0]!.toLowerCase() !== needle) {
           return handler(`${matches[0]}${argTail}`)
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.test.ts b/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3acda4574
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+import { normalizeSlashSearchQuery, rankSlashItems, scoreSlashMenuItem, tokenizeSearchText } from './fuzzyScore.js'
+
+describe('normalizeSlashSearchQuery', () => {
+  it('trims, strips leading slashes, and lowercases', () => {
+    expect(normalizeSlashSearchQuery(' /Model ')).toBe('model')
+    expect(normalizeSlashSearchQuery('//help')).toBe('help')
+    expect(normalizeSlashSearchQuery('plain')).toBe('plain')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('tokenizeSearchText', () => {
+  it('returns the full lowercased value plus alphanumeric word tokens', () => {
+    expect(tokenizeSearchText('Commit & Push')).toEqual(['commit & push', 'commit', 'push'])
+  })
+})
+
+describe('scoreSlashMenuItem', () => {
+  const item = { aliases: ['recap', 'summary'], description: 'Turn session recaps on/off', id: 'recaps', label: 'recaps' }
+
+  it('scores exact name matches at tier 0', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'recaps')).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('scores exact alias matches at tier 0', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'summary')).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('scores name prefixes at tier 1 and name substrings at tier 2', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'rec')).toBe(1)
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'caps')).toBe(2)
+  })
+
+  it('scores description matches at the +3 offset, below any name tier', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem({ description: 'Turn session recaps on/off', id: 'other' }, 'session')).toBe(3)
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem({ description: 'Turn session recaps on/off', id: 'other' }, 'sess')).toBe(4)
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem({ description: 'Turn session recaps on/off', id: 'other' }, 'essio')).toBe(5)
+  })
+
+  it('prefers the name tier when both name and description match', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'recap')).toBe(0)
+  })
+
+  it('returns Infinity when nothing matches', () => {
+    expect(scoreSlashMenuItem(item, 'zzz')).toBe(Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('rankSlashItems', () => {
+  const apps = [
+    { help: 'Show available commands', id: 'help' },
+    { help: 'Start a countdown timer', id: 'clock' },
+    { help: 'Select a model', id: 'models' }
+  ]
+
+  const toScoreItem = (app: (typeof apps)[number]) => ({ description: app.help, id: app.id })
+
+  it('returns the list untouched for an empty query', () => {
+    expect(rankSlashItems(apps, '/', toScoreItem)).toEqual(apps)
+  })
+
+  it('surfaces description matches the prefix filter would miss', () => {
+    expect(rankSlashItems(apps, '/timer', toScoreItem).map(app => app.id)).toEqual(['clock'])
+  })
+
+  it('ranks name matches above description matches and drops non-matches', () => {
+    const ranked = rankSlashItems(
+      [{ help: 'model picker widget', id: 'gallery' }, ...apps],
+      '/model',
+      toScoreItem
+    )
+
+    expect(ranked.map(app => app.id)).toEqual(['models', 'gallery'])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps original order within a score tier', () => {
+    const ranked = rankSlashItems(
+      [
+        { help: '', id: 'mod-b' },
+        { help: '', id: 'mod-a' }
+      ],
+      '/mod',
+      toScoreItem
+    )
+
+    expect(ranked.map(app => app.id)).toEqual(['mod-b', 'mod-a'])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.ts b/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d721c3c97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tui/src/app/slash/fuzzyScore.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/** Description-aware fuzzy scoring for the slash-command menu.
+ *
+ *  Ported from superagent-ai/grok-cli `src/ui/slash-menu.ts`: candidates are
+ *  scored in tiers — exact match on id/label/alias (0), prefix (1), substring
+ *  (2) — and the DESCRIPTION text is tokenized and matched at a +3 offset
+ *  (exact word 3, word prefix 4, word substring 5). Typing `/summary` thus
+ *  surfaces a command whose description mentions summaries even though no
+ *  command name starts with it. Lower score wins; `Infinity` means no match.
+ */
+
+export interface SlashScoreItem {
+  aliases?: string[]
+  description?: string
+  id: string
+  label?: string
+}
+
+/** Lowercase the value and return it alongside its alphanumeric word tokens. */
+export function tokenizeSearchText(value: string): string[] {
+  const normalized = value.toLowerCase()
+
+  return [normalized, ...normalized.split(/[^a-z0-9]+/).filter(Boolean)]
+}
+
+/** Trim, drop leading slashes, lowercase — `/Model ` and `model` score alike. */
+export function normalizeSlashSearchQuery(query: string): string {
+  return query.trim().replace(/^\/+/, '').toLowerCase()
+}
+
+function scoreFields(fields: string[], query: string, offset: number): number {
+  for (const field of fields) {
+    if (field === query || `/${field}` === query) {
+      return offset
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (const field of fields) {
+    if (field.startsWith(query) || `/${field}`.startsWith(query)) {
+      return offset + 1
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (const field of fields) {
+    if (field.includes(query)) {
+      return offset + 2
+    }
+  }
+
+  return Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY
+}
+
+/** Score one item against a normalized query. Lower is better; Infinity = no match. */
+export function scoreSlashMenuItem(item: SlashScoreItem, query: string): number {
+  const commandFields = [item.id, item.label ?? '', ...(item.aliases ?? [])]
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .flatMap(tokenizeSearchText)
+
+  const descriptionFields = tokenizeSearchText(item.description ?? '')
+
+  return Math.min(scoreFields(commandFields, query, 0), scoreFields(descriptionFields, query, 3))
+}
+
+/** Filter and stable-sort `items` by score (then original order). An empty
+ *  query returns the list untouched so browsing keeps the caller's order. */
+export function rankSlashItems<T>(items: T[], query: string, toScoreItem: (item: T) => SlashScoreItem): T[] {
+  const normalized = normalizeSlashSearchQuery(query)
+
+  if (!normalized) {
+    return items
+  }
+
+  return items
+    .map((item, index) => ({ index, item, score: scoreSlashMenuItem(toScoreItem(item), normalized) }))
+    .filter(entry => entry.score !== Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY)
+    .sort((a, b) => a.score - b.score || a.index - b.index)
+    .map(entry => entry.item)
+}
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts b/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
index cb9572f261..bcbcb8ab63 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/hooks/useCompletion.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 
 import type { CompletionItem } from '../app/interfaces.js'
+import { rankSlashItems } from '../app/slash/fuzzyScore.js'
 import { inlineSlashTrigger, looksLikeSlashCommand } from '../domain/slash.js'
 import type { GatewayClient } from '../gatewayClient.js'
 import type { CompletionResponse } from '../gatewayTypes.js'
@@ -9,15 +10,16 @@ import { listWidgetApps } from '../sdk/registry.js'
 
 /** Client-side widget apps live in the TUI's registry, not the gateway — so
  *  `/` completions merge their title/metadata here. Registry-driven: a new
- *  app surfaces automatically, no hardcoded lists on either side. */
+ *  app surfaces automatically, no hardcoded lists on either side. Matching is
+ *  description-aware (ported from grok-cli's slash menu): `/timer` surfaces a
+ *  widget whose help text mentions timers, not just id-prefix hits. */
 export function mergeWidgetAppItems(input: string, items: CompletionItem[]): CompletionItem[] {
   // Only complete the command NAME position (no args typed yet).
   if (input.includes(' ')) {
     return items
   }
 
-  const local = listWidgetApps()
-    .filter(app => `/${app.id}`.startsWith(input.toLowerCase()))
+  const local = rankSlashItems(listWidgetApps(), input, app => ({ description: app.help, id: app.id }))
     .filter(app => !items.some(item => item.text === `/${app.id}`))
     .map(app => ({ display: `/${app.id}`, meta: app.help, text: `/${app.id}` }))