Keyboard shortcuts and slash commands.

Type /help for the commands available in your installation, including discovered extensions. The reference below covers CLI 0.9.0. Terminal key support can vary; use the displayed prompt and permission-card hints when they differ.

#Compose a message

Key	At the ordinary prompt
Enter	Send the message.
Shift+Enter, or Esc then Enter	Insert a newline where supported.
Up / Down	Browse prompt history.
Ctrl+R / Ctrl+S	Search history using the prompt's search behavior. Enter accepts a match before you send it.
Ctrl+G, or Ctrl+X then Ctrl+E	Edit the draft in your configured editor, then return it to the prompt.

#Steer, queue, or stop active work

While a response runs, you can type a draft. Enter redirects work after the current step: Code ends that turn and starts your steer as a follow-up before queued messages. Tab queues the draft until the current turn finishes normally. Esc clears a nonempty draft first; with no draft, it stops the active turn when the terminal listener supports it.

While a turn runs, a typed draft such as “Only change the header” has three possible actions. Enter sends it as a steer after the current step; Tab queues it for the next turn; Escape clears the typed draft. With no draft, Escape stops the turn. On a permission card, Escape instead denies that pending request. The illustrated keys only explain these choices.

Enter ends the current turn as redirected at its step boundary and starts the steer as a follow-up turn before queued messages. Tab instead queues the message until ordinary current-turn completion. Esc removes the draft without sending it; the permission-card Esc behavior is shown separately.

A permission card owns its keys: Esc denies the request, while Ctrl+C stops the turn. At the idle prompt, Ctrl+C or end-of-input follows the session's exit flow instead. Stopping a turn does not undo actions already completed or guarantee that dispatched remote work was canceled.

Type-ahead is bounded: up to five pending messages and 4,000 characters in the draft. If you stop the turn, queued or steered text is held for the next prompt instead of automatically starting new work.

#Find a command by its job

Job	Commands
Inspect the session	/help, /status, /workspace [path], /doctor
Sign in and configure	/login, /config, /config init
Choose a model	/providers (also /models), /provider [id], /model [id], /effort [level] (auto, low, medium, high)
Choose how to work	/mode [name] (plan, build, crew), /plan, /build, /crew [task]
Inspect cost and context	/cost, /context, /compact [focus]
Manage conversation history	/sessions [all], /resume [number-or-id], /fork, /clear
Recover an exchange	/undo, /redo, /rewind
Export or copy history	/export [format] [path] (md or json), /copy [json]
Enable command tools	/commands on, /commands off
Review permissions	/permissions, /permissions remove <number>, /permissions clear, /permissions clear project, /auto on, /auto off
Manage ordinary processes	/processes, /processes stop <id>, /processes stop all
Run your own shell command	/cmd <command>
Add an image	/image [path] [instructions]; use startup --image for paths containing spaces
Inspect extensions	/mcp, /skills, /agents, /hooks
Follow Crew	/run and its displayed subcommands
Open a project	/studio [project-id]
Adjust the terminal	/notify [method] (system, bell, off), /statusline on, /statusline off
Leave Code	/exit (also /quit)

Square brackets mean optional arguments; angle brackets mean a value you supply. Do not paste the brackets literally. A slash command is an operator action, whereas names such as local.read_file are tools the model can request.

#Keep similarly named actions separate

/clear starts a new conversation without deleting old logs or undoing files. /commands off prevents future model command tools but does not stop existing ordinary background processes. /fork copies conversation history, not your workspace. /auto opts into automatic review of eligible actions; it does not approve every paid or sensitive operation. Follow each linked guide for the action's scope and recovery behavior.