diff --git a/src/apps/officer-web/Screens/Dashboard/Layout/Rescan/RescanButton.tsx b/src/apps/officer-web/Screens/Dashboard/Layout/Rescan/RescanButton.tsx
index cee13a84..cfdc0abe 100644
--- a/src/apps/officer-web/Screens/Dashboard/Layout/Rescan/RescanButton.tsx
+++ b/src/apps/officer-web/Screens/Dashboard/Layout/Rescan/RescanButton.tsx
@@ -35,11 +35,25 @@ export function RescanButton() {
       toast.success(
         `Rescanned items — ${c.tasks ?? 0} tasks, ${c.agents ?? 0} agents, ${c.tools ?? 0} tools, ${c.skills ?? 0} skills, ${c.processes ?? 0} processes, ${c.affordances ?? 0} affordances`,
         {
-          // Said here rather than left to be discovered: a rescan cannot reach a chat that is already
-          // open, because its system prompt was assembled when it started.
-          description: c.affordances
-            ? 'Affordances apply to new chats — an open one keeps the set it started with.'
-            : undefined,
+          // Two things said here rather than left to be discovered.
+          //
+          // A rescan cannot reach a chat that is already open — its system prompt was assembled when it
+          // started. And a SKILL.md with no `description` is COUNTED as a skill but never offered to an
+          // agent, because the loader skips it: a line that does not say when to reach for something
+          // costs context in every conversation and earns nothing. So a skill can be present, listed and
+          // editable while being invisible to every agent, and the only symptom is two numbers
+          // disagreeing where nobody is comparing them.
+          description:
+            [
+              c.affordances || c.skillsOffered
+                ? 'Applies to new chats — an open one keeps what it started with.'
+                : null,
+              typeof c.skills === 'number' && typeof c.skillsOffered === 'number' && c.skillsOffered < c.skills
+                ? `${c.skills - c.skillsOffered} skill(s) have no description, so no agent is offered them.`
+                : null,
+            ]
+              .filter(Boolean)
+              .join(' ') || undefined,
         },
       );
     } catch {