fix(app): reveal the full skill description on hover

[benjaminshafii]

What

Reported via OpenWork feedback (fangrenzsf-creator, Jun 14, v0.16.2, Windows), in Chinese: Skills list descriptions are unreadable when long.

Investigation — the reported symptom was NOT reproducible

The user said the text does not wrap and forces a horizontal scrollbar. That is not what the code does:

• extension-card.tsx:175 uses line-clamp-2 — the text wraps, then clips at 2 lines. No whitespace-nowrap, no truncate, no overflow-x scroller, and the grid tracks are minmax(0,1fr) so content cannot widen a track.
• The page the user actually saw at v0.16.2 (settings/pages/skills-view.tsx) is dead code on dev — unreferenced since 820d00a. Its skill name had truncate without min-w-0, which is the real source of their horizontal scrollbar, but that file no longer ships. The live card already has min-w-0 break-words.

The genuine remaining gap

Clipped text had no title and no tooltip, so the full description was unreachable from the list — it existed only in the detail modal. That matches the user's own suggestion #3.

How

Wrap the clipped <p> in the existing Tooltip primitive (components/ui/tooltip.tsx, Base UI). TooltipProvider is already mounted app-wide at index.react.tsx:43. TooltipContent already has max-w-xs. 5 insertions, 1 deletion.

Tradeoff (please weigh in)

The tooltip is unconditional — it shows even when the description is short enough not to clip, duplicating visible text. Detecting actual clipping needs DOM measurement, which is disproportionate here. Skill descriptions are characteristically long (they are LLM-facing trigger text, which is why this was reported at all), so in practice it nearly always adds information. Happy to gate it on a measured overflow check if you'd rather.

Tests run

$ pnpm --filter @openwork/app typecheck
$ tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit   (exit 0)

$ pnpm --filter @openwork/app exec bun test tests/openwork-connect-beta-badge.test.tsx
 1 pass  0 fail   (only existing test touching extension-card)

$ git diff --stat
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Not done

No fraimz/CDP run.

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