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Slash commands
The commands you type after / in the interactive screen of TALOS CLI.
Reference for TALOS CLI 0.3.3
TALOS CLI 0.5.2 is out; this page still describes 0.3.3 and updates with the next build.
Type / on an empty prompt to see them; Tab completes a name.
/help- Show commands
/diff- Show current Git diff
/status- Show session status
/context- Show context/session information
/usage- Show tokens, context window, cost and compactions
/redraw- Redraw terminal
/theme [name]- Choose the colour theme (the arrows preview it)
/config- Change personal display settings for this project
/copy [n]- Copy TALOS’s last answer, or the n-th from the end, to the clipboard
Model and turn
Section titled “Model and turn”/provider- Choose the AI provider
/setup- Set up provider, key and model, step by step
/model [provider:model]- Choose a model from the chosen provider
/effort [level]- Choose the reasoning effort of the current model
/queue [show|clear|run]- Show or manage queued follow-ups
/busy [queue|steer|interrupt]- Choose what Enter does while TALOS works
/permissions [dry-run <shell command>]- Show permission mode
/plan- Toggle plan-oriented guidance
/retry- Send your last message again
Session
Section titled “Session”/compact- Compact context
/clear- Clear terminal transcript
/resume [session-id]- Resume a session
/fork [session-id]- Fork a session
/export [md|json|jsonl] [file]- Save this conversation to a file (Markdown by default)
/rename <name>- Give this conversation a name
/undo- Go back to an earlier point of this conversation’s files (also /rewind, /checkpoint)Also
/rewind/checkpoint /history- Your messages in this project, to put one back in the composer
/exit- Exit TALOS
Extensions
Section titled “Extensions”/mcp [list|test|trust|untrust] [server-id]- Manage MCP servers
/hooks [list|dry-run|history|trust|untrust|quarantine|release] [hook-id] [args...]- Manage hooks
/plugins [list|install|remove|trust|untrust|quarantine|release] [plugin-id] [args...]- Manage plugins
/doctor [args...]- Run diagnostics
Work surfaces
Section titled “Work surfaces”/memory [args...]- Memory operations
/notes [args...]- Notes operations
/tasks [args...]- Tasks operations
/library [args...]- Library operations
/research [args...]- Deep Research operations
/automations [args...]- Automation operations
/forge [args...]- Tool Forge operations