diff --git a/packages/views/skills/components/skills-page.tsx b/packages/views/skills/components/skills-page.tsx
index 8cd6ebf38..222463558 100644
--- a/packages/views/skills/components/skills-page.tsx
+++ b/packages/views/skills/components/skills-page.tsx
@@ -219,24 +219,42 @@ function CheckboxCell({
   );
 }
 
+// Two-line name cell: skill name plus the description as a muted subtext
+// line. The description deliberately lives HERE and not in its own column —
+// it is unsortable prose, so it gets no track, no header, and no slot in the
+// responsive arithmetic. Both lines fit the fixed 48px row (20px + 16px line
+// heights), so the virtualizer's fixed-height contract is untouched; rows
+// without a description just center the name.
 function NameCell({ row }: { row: SkillRow }) {
   const { t } = useT("skills");
   const { skill, canEdit } = row;
   return (
-    <ListGridCell className="gap-1.5">
-      <span className="min-w-0 truncate text-sm font-medium">
-        {skill.name}
-      </span>
-      {!canEdit && (
-        <Tooltip>
-          <TooltipTrigger
-            render={
-              <Lock className="h-3 w-3 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground/60" />
-            }
-          />
-          <TooltipContent>{t(($) => $.table.lock_tooltip)}</TooltipContent>
-        </Tooltip>
-      )}
+    <ListGridCell>
+      <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-col">
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
+          <span className="min-w-0 truncate text-sm font-medium">
+            {skill.name}
+          </span>
+          {!canEdit && (
+            <Tooltip>
+              <TooltipTrigger
+                render={
+                  <Lock className="h-3 w-3 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground/60" />
+                }
+              />
+              <TooltipContent>{t(($) => $.table.lock_tooltip)}</TooltipContent>
+            </Tooltip>
+          )}
+        </div>
+        {skill.description ? (
+          <span
+            title={skill.description}
+            className="min-w-0 max-w-[36rem] truncate text-xs text-muted-foreground"
+          >
+            {skill.description}
+          </span>
+        ) : null}
+      </div>
     </ListGridCell>
   );
 }