Slash Commands

Press Tab to autocomplete a command, and Enter to autocomplete and send. Press Tab again when command matches fully to queue the command. This allows chains like "commit" -> [Tab] -> "/compact" -> [Tab] -> "/prompts:open_pr" -> [Tab].

Command	Input	What it does
/exit	none	Exit Kent. During active work, Kent detaches while the server continues the run.
/new	none	Start a new session without stopping active work in the current session.
/resume	none	Open the session picker without stopping active work in the current session.
/login	none	Open auth options.
/compact <instructions>	optional free-form text	Compact the current context. Trailing text is passed through as additional compaction instructions. Active non-workflow goals continue in the resumed context.
/name <title>	optional free-form text	Set the session title. Empty input resets.
/thinking <low|medium|high|xhigh|max|ultra>	optional single value	Set the thinking level. Empty input shows the current level.
/fast [on|off|status]	optional single value	Toggle or inspect Fast mode;
/supervisor [on|off]	optional single value	Toggle supervisor invocation.
/autocompaction [on|off]	optional single value	Toggle auto-compaction.
/status	none	Open a page with detailed information about the config, git, runtime, and model.
/goal [pause|resume|clear|<objective>]	optional action or objective	Set or manage the current session goal (ralph-loop). Empty input opens the goal page.
/ps [kill|inline|logs] <id>	optional action + id	Open the background-process picker, or manage a specific background shell.
/wt	none	Open the Worktrees page.
/wt create	none	Open the create-worktree dialog; new branches require a non-empty base ref.
/wt switch <target>	required selector	Schedule entry into a worktree by id, branch, display name, or path.
/wt delete [<target>]	optional selector	Delete a worktree.
/copy	none	Copy the latest durable model final answer to the system clipboard.
/back	none	Return to the parent session, if present, with the child’s latest durable final answer prefilled.
/review <what to review>	optional free-form text	Trigger Kent’s native code review. It reuses an empty session; otherwise it starts a fresh child session.
/init <instructions>	optional free-form text	Run repository initialization. It reuses an empty session; otherwise it starts a fresh child session.
/prompt:<name>	optional trailing arguments	Run a server-owned custom prompt command.

Kent discovers Markdown prompt commands on the server that owns the attached Project Workspace. Remote clients do not read server paths or receive prompt bodies in the command catalog.

The effective roots, in descending precedence, are:

• <workspace>/.kent/prompts
• <workspace>/.kent/commands
• <persistence-root>/prompts
• <persistence-root>/commands
• <persistence-root>/.generated/prompts
• <persistence-root>/.generated/commands

Discovery is non-recursive and includes non-blank .md files. The first valid file for each normalized basename wins. IDs lowercase letters, preserve digits, convert whitespace and underscores to one underscore, and discard other characters.

The picker shows a one-line preview made from the first 256 Unicode characters after collapsing whitespace. Markdown punctuation remains unchanged. Prompt bodies are resolved by the server when the command is invoked.

If the exact $ARGUMENTS token appears in the body, Kent replaces every occurrence with trimmed trailing arguments. Otherwise, Kent appends non-empty trailing arguments after one blank line.

First-time setup can import slash-command directories from supported providers. An unavailable or unknown /prompt: command reports an error and is never sent to the model as plain text. Other unknown slash commands retain their normal behavior.