Slash commands

Slash commands control o4 from the prompt: switch models, manage the session, open panes, and start work. Type / in the prompt to open the completion list and filter it as you type, or press / in Navigation Mode to open the command palette. /help shows the same list inside o4. Arguments in <angle brackets> are required and arguments in [square brackets] are optional. A | separates alternatives.

/model
/goal Make the integration tests pass without skipping any
/export notes/session.md

Skills and plugin commands also run as slash commands, for example /review for a skill named review. Built-in commands take precedence over a skill or plugin command with the same name. See Skills and Plugins and marketplaces.

Commands while a task is running

You can type a slash command while the model is working. Commands that show information, open a pane or a browser, or change side state such as the goal or the todo list run right away. Commands that change the conversation, the model or the tools wait in a queue and run, in order, when the current task finishes. o4 shows Queued '/<name>' until the active task finishes. When more than one command is waiting, the notice ends with the count instead, as in Queued '/rewind' until the active task finishes (2 waiting). If a queued command starts a new turn, the commands after it wait for that turn too. These run right away:

/help, /commands, /hey, /diff, /cost, /radar, /debrief, /context, /stats, /status
/export, /copy, /bug, /feedback
/config and its shortcuts, such as /models, /theme and /permissions, plus /add-provider, and /reasoning, /login and /auth without an argument
The browsers and panes: /agents, /sub-agents and /skills with any of their verbs, /plugins, /plugins install without a source, /mcp, /mcp add without a name, /hooks, /sessions, /rewind list, /memory, /onboard
/goal with or without an argument, /todo, /loop, /rename, /plan clear, /panel and /panel off
/mcp list, /mcp search, /workflow list, /plugins validate, /plugins marketplace list, /stash list, /router or /router status, /scout --diff, /auth status, /auth login chatgpt
/exit and /quit, which quit o4
The commands under Not listed in /help that only print a line of text, such as /version, /usage and /recall

Everything else is queued, including /clear, /compact, /model and /model <reference>, /reasoning <level>, /login <key>, /auth import, /undo, /retry, /resume, /fork, /rewind and /rewind <n>, /plan, /commit, /campaign <objective>, /workflow run, /init, /reload, /memory clear, /scout, /stash and /stash <n>, /mcp add <name>, /mcp remove, /mcp restart, the /plugins commands that install, update, remove or create a plugin or change a marketplace, and skills and plugin commands. /goal <objective> sets the goal right away, but its first prompt goes out when the current turn finishes. If you run /goal clear or /goal complete before then, that prompt doesn’t go out. To switch models during a turn, press Ctrl+M with an empty prompt: the model list opens at once, and the model you pick becomes the session’s model right away. The running turn finishes on its old model unless the model router is on. /model and /model <reference> wait for the turn to finish. Ctrl+M works only in terminals that report it as its own key, and not inside tmux; see Keyboard shortcuts. A pane you open during a turn can’t change the running turn:

Resuming, forking or rewinding from the session picker, the Time Machine or an action chip is refused until the turn finishes. The session picker shows Wait for the current turn to finish before resuming, forking or rewinding.
These actions are refused too: adding, removing, enabling, disabling, restarting or editing an MCP server; installing, updating or removing a plugin; refreshing or removing a marketplace; creating, editing or deleting a skill or an agent; deleting a session; and Import Codex auth and Import Claude Code auth in /config. o4 closes the pane and shows Wait for the current turn to finish before making this change.
Settings you change in /config are saved right away, but some of them, such as the reasoning level, take effect only when the turn finishes. See The /config screen.

Core

Command	Description
`/help`	Open the Help pane: the keyboard reference and every command.
`/commands`	Open the same Help pane.
`/clear`	Clear the conversation history.
`/compact`	Compact the conversation context now. See Context and cost.
`/init`	Create or improve the project’s root `AGENTS.md`. o4 runs a normal agent turn that reads the repository first. See Project instructions.
`/reload`	Reload project instructions and memory without restarting.
`/cost`	Show the session’s token usage and cost.
`/context`	Show how the context window is used. `/context --json` works only in print mode.
`/radar`	Show the Workspace Radar’s actionable items. See Code intelligence.
`/goal [objective\|status\|complete\|clear]`	Start a goal with an objective, show it (`status` or no argument), mark it complete (`complete` or `done`), or clear it (`clear` or `reset`). See Goals.
`/loop [interval] <prompt>`	Run a prompt or slash command repeatedly as a background task. The interval is `Ns`, `Nm`, `Nh` or `Nd`, and defaults to `10m`. You can also write the interval at the end, as in `/loop check the deploy every 20m` or `every 2 hours`. Seconds round up to whole minutes, and minute intervals above 59 round to the nearest whole hour.
`/retry`	Resend your last message to retry the last failed turn.
`/undo`	Undo o4’s most recent file write or edit. Run it again to step further back. See Undo and rewind.
`/hey [message]`	Open a scratch side chat that never touches the main conversation. An optional message is sent as the first question.
`/todo [add <text>]`	Add an item to the session todo list and open the list. Bare `/todo` and `/todo list` are meant to open the list, but in 0.2.74 they only refresh it when it’s already open; press `Alt+L` instead. See Todos and background tasks.
`/onboard`	Open the onboarding wizard to set up a provider and model.
`/bug [text]`	Open a pre-filled GitHub bug report. See Feedback and support.
`/feedback [text]`	Open a pre-filled GitHub issue to share an idea or request a feature.

Examples:

/loop 30m check the deploy
/todo add Update the changelog
/hey what does the --locked flag do in cargo?

Configuration

Command	Description
`/config [tab [add]]`	Open settings. The tab is one of `general`, `model`, `reasoning`, `providers`, `appearance`, `keys`, `mcp`, `plugins`, `agents`, `skills` or `tools`. `/config providers add` opens the Providers tab at the Add custom provider row; press `Enter` to add one. See Configuration files.
`/model`	Open the model selector to switch the model for this session. `/model <provider:model>`, for example `/model anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6`, switches to that model for the session instead. Neither saves a default model; use the Model row of `/config model` for that. See Choosing a model.
`/panel [off]`	Show which models your plain messages go to after a `^model ^model` panel, or end the panel with `off`. See Panels.
`/router [setup\|status\|disable]`	Set up, inspect or turn off the model router. `status` is the default.
`/hooks`	List the configured lifecycle hooks. See Hooks.

/router setup on its own shows a preview of the router configuration. Add --yes to write it. If fewer than two providers are usable, it shows Router setup was not enabled. and writes nothing, even with --yes. It also refuses to write when a file that takes precedence, such as the project’s .o4/config.toml or ~/.o4/managed/config.toml, already has a [router] section. It accepts these options:

Option	Description
`--yes`, `-y`	Write the configuration instead of showing a preview.
`--project`	Write to the project’s `.o4/config.toml` instead of `~/.o4/config.toml`.
`--candidate <provider:model>`	A model the router may use. Repeat for several. With `--yes`, the models you pass replace the file’s `candidates` list, and leaving `--candidate` out removes the list.
`--capacity <provider=N>`	A capacity limit for a provider, as a whole number above zero.

/router disable --project turns the router off in the project’s config. /router off is the same as /router disable. Router changes take effect in the next session. See the router settings.

/config appearance
/router setup --candidate anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6 --candidate openai:gpt-5.2

Session

Command	Description
`/resume [id]`	Open the session picker, or switch to the session with that ID. See Sessions.
`/fork [name]`	Fork the conversation into a new session and keep the original. With no name, open the fork switcher.
`/rename [title]`	Rename the session. With no title, the prompt is filled with the current title for editing.
`/stash [list]`	Work with prompts you put aside with `Ctrl+S`. `/stash list` shows them, numbered from `0`, and `/stash <n>` puts prompt `n` back into the prompt box. `/stash` on its own does nothing, because the prompt box is already empty when the command runs. See Writing prompts.
`/rewind [id\|list]`	Go back to a checkpoint. With no argument, open the Time Machine. `list` (or `ls`) lists checkpoints, and a number rewinds to that checkpoint right away, without asking. A checkpoint that has a row in the Time Machine restores files and conversation; any other checkpoint restores files only. See Undo and rewind.
`/debrief`	Show the session debrief: changed files, commands, verification, open threads and decisions.

/rewind replaces the current conversation and files with the checkpoint’s state. Use /fork first if you want to keep the current line of work.

Tools

Command	Description
`/diff`	Open the overlay with the files changed in this session.
`/commit`	Build a `chore:` commit message from `git diff --stat` and the list of changed files, ask Commit with this message?, then stage everything with `git add -A` and commit. It doesn’t call the model. See Git and code review.
`/export <path>`	Export the conversation to a Markdown file. A relative path starts at the working directory. The folder must already exist, and `~` isn’t expanded. `/export clipboard` copies the conversation to the clipboard instead.
`/copy [last\|all]`	Copy the last reply (`last`, the default) or the whole transcript (`all`) to the clipboard.
`/scout [--diff]`	Open Project Scout: it analyzes the project and suggests tools, MCP servers and skills to turn on or off, with the token cost of each. Pick with `Space` and press `Enter` to save your picks to `.o4/config.toml`; they apply in the next session. `/scout --diff` opens the same pane, and unlike `/scout` it also runs while a task is running. See Code intelligence.

/export refactor-session.md
/copy all

MCP

Command	Description
`/mcp`	Open the MCP browser with your configured servers and the registry search.
`/mcp add [name]`	Add a server from the registry. With no name, open the add flow in the browser.
`/mcp remove <name>`	Remove a server.
`/mcp list`	List configured servers.
`/mcp search [query]`	Search the MCP registry. With no query, open the registry search.
`/mcp restart [name]`	Restart one server, or all servers.

In o4 0.2.74, registry lookups fail, so /mcp add <name> and /mcp search don’t find servers. Add servers with Add server in /mcp instead. See MCP servers.

Memory

Command	Description
`/memory`	Show memory status.
`/memory clear`	Delete the memory files for the current project.

See Memory.

Agents

Command	Description
`/agents`	Open the Agent command center: the main agents, subagents, background tasks, campaigns and campaign workers in every tab of this o4. Tasks started with `/loop` aren’t listed; see the Task Board (`Alt+B`). See Todos and background tasks.
`/sub-agents`	Open the Agents browser to browse, create, edit, delete and select agent definitions.
`/campaign <objective>`	Start a validated multi-agent campaign. See Campaigns.

/sub-agents also takes a verb: create [name] (or new) opens the create form, and select, use, edit, delete or remove followed by a name opens that definition. /agents accepts the same verbs and then opens the Agents browser instead of the command center. See Subagents.

/sub-agents create reviewer
/campaign Migrate the settings module to the new config loader

Skills

Command	Description
`/skills`	Browse, create, edit, delete and select skills.

Like /sub-agents, /skills takes create [name] (or new), and select, use, edit, delete or remove followed by a skill name. See Skills.

Plugins

Command	Description
`/plugins`	Open the plugin browser: installed plugins, Git installs and load errors. `/plugins list` does the same.
`/plugins install [source] [--project]`	Install a plugin by marketplace name, `owner/repo`, git URL or local path. With no source, open the install flow. `--project` installs it for this project only.
`/plugins remove <name>`	Remove a plugin.
`/plugins update <name>`	Update a plugin.
`/plugins new <name>`	Create a new plugin skeleton in the project’s `.o4/plugins/` folder. The workspace must be trusted.
`/plugins validate [name]`	Check a plugin’s commands, agents, skills and workflows, or every installed plugin when you give no name. Problems show in the plugin browser.
`/plugins marketplace [add <source>\|remove <name>\|refresh [name]\|list]`	Manage marketplaces. With no subcommand, list them.
`/workflow [list\|run <name> [--stage <stage>] [args...]]`	List plugin workflows, or run one, optionally from a given stage.

See Plugins and marketplaces.

/plugins install owner/repo
/workflow run release --stage verify

Usage and status

Command	Description
`/stats`	Show session and tool usage statistics. `/stats --json` works only in print mode.
`/status`	Show the current model and your account’s usage limits, where the provider reports them.

To get a report from a script, run o4 -p "/stats --json" or o4 -p "/context --json". See Print mode and scripting.

Not listed in /help

These commands work in every session but don’t appear in /help or the completion list.

Session and information

Command	Description
`/plan`	Turn on plan mode. `/plan clear` (or `dismiss`, or `close`) hides the plan panel. `/ultraplan` does the same as `/plan`. See Plan mode.
`/exit`, `/quit`	Quit o4. Typing `exit` or `quit` on its own does the same. With anything after it, as in `/exit now`, the text goes to the model as a normal message.
`/sessions`	Open the session browser, the same as `/resume` with no ID. See Sessions.
`/version`	Show the o4 version.
`/env`	Show the o4 version, the current model, the working directory and your shell.
`/doctor`	Show the same details as `/env`, plus your terminal (`TERM`) and home directory. Useful to paste into a bug report.
`/usage`	Show one line with the session’s total tokens, input and output tokens, cache reads and writes, cost, and model. `/insights` and `/summary` show the same line. For more detail, use `/cost` or `/stats`.
`/remember <key>=<value>`	Save a key and value in `.o4/session-memory.json` in the current project. It’s kept across sessions. `/remember <key>: <value>` works too.
`/recall [key]`	With a key, show its saved value. Without one, list the saved keys.
`/files`	List the first 30 files and folders at the top of the working directory, with a count of the rest.
`/tokens <text>`	Estimate how many tokens some text uses, at about 4 characters per token.
`/memdir [query]`	List the Markdown memory files in the project’s `.o4/memory/` and in `~/.o4/memory/`. With a query, list only the files that match it, best match first.
`/extract-mem <text>`	Show which lines of some text look like facts worth remembering. It saves nothing.

/remember and /recall are a note store for you. The model never sees what they save. To give the model something to remember, use memory.

Settings shortcuts

Each of these opens /config at a tab, and at a row where noted. You can do the same by opening /config and moving to the row. /permissions and /rules are the exception: they open their own pane. See Configuration files.

Command	Opens
`/models`	The Model tab.
`/reasoning`	The Reasoning tab. With a level, such as `/reasoning high`, it sets the reasoning level for this session instead, and refuses a level the current model doesn’t offer. See Reasoning and prompt profiles.
`/think`	The Thinking display row on the Reasoning tab.
`/provider`, `/providers`	The Providers tab.
`/add-provider`	The Add custom provider row on the Providers tab, the same as `/config providers add`.
`/permissions`, `/rules`	The Permission Rules pane, the same as choosing the Permission rules row on the General tab. It lists the project’s rules from `.o4/config.toml`, and `Enter` removes the selected rule. See Permissions.
`/sandbox`	The Sandbox tier row on the General tab.
`/policy`	The Sandbox policy row on the General tab.
`/effort`	The Reasoning tab, like `/reasoning` with no level.
`/details`	The Theme row on the Appearance tab.
`/theme`, `/themes`, `/color`	The theme preview on the Appearance tab, just below the Theme row.
`/statusline`, `/status-line`	The Appearance tab, at the Timestamps row.
`/timestamps`	The Timestamps row on the Appearance tab.
`/anim`	The Reduce motion row on the Appearance tab, just below Animations.
`/keys`, `/vim`	The Keys tab, with the Vim mode row.
`/keybindings`	The Current keybindings row on the Keys tab.
`/tool`, `/tools`, `/lsp`, `/lsp-server`, `/lsp-servers`	The LSP servers row on the Tools tab.
`/formatter`, `/formatters`	The Formatters row on the Tools tab.

Accounts and the model catalog

Command	Description
`/login [api-key]`	With no key, open the Providers tab. With a key, save it as the API key for the current model’s provider in `~/.o4/settings.json`.
`/auth`	Open the Providers tab, like `/login` with no key.
`/auth status`	Show which providers have a key or login.
`/auth set-key <provider> <api-key>`	Save an API key for a provider in `~/.o4/settings.json`, for example `/auth set-key anthropic sk-ant-...`.
`/auth logout <provider>`	Remove the stored key for a provider.
`/auth import codex`, `/auth import claude`	Import a ChatGPT/Codex or Claude Code login. See Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions.
`/auth login chatgpt`	Show how to sign in with a ChatGPT account. `/auth login codex` does the same.
`/models-update`	Download the latest model catalog now, the same as Refresh catalog on the Model tab. See Choosing a model.

A key you type after /login or /auth set-key stays in your prompt history. To keep keys out of history, set them in /config providers or with an environment variable.

Other names for listed commands

Command	Same as
`/command`	`/help`
`/agent`	`/sub-agents`, the agent definitions browser. It takes the same verbs as `/sub-agents`.
`/tasks`, `/bg`	`/agents`, the Agent command center
`/fg <task-id>`	`/agents`, with the background task that has this number brought to the front
`/skill`	`/skills`
`/plugin`	`/plugins`
`/mcp-server`, `/mcp-servers`	`/mcp`
`/hook`	`/hooks`
`/todos`	`/todo`
`/ctxviz`, `/ctx_viz`	`/context`
`/share`	`/export clipboard`: copy the conversation to the clipboard
`/commit-push-pr`, `/commit-push`	`/commit`. Despite the name and the message it prints, it doesn’t push or open a pull request.
`/thinkback [n]`, `/thinkback-play [n]`	`/rewind list`, or `/rewind <n>` with a number
`/teleport [n]`	`/rewind list`, or `/rewind <n>` with a number

Commands that do nothing yet

o4 0.2.74 also accepts some command names that only print a message, such as “not yet available” or a tip, and change nothing:

Not available yet: /voice, /branch, /issue, /tag, /add-dir, /security-review, /bughunter, /autofix-pr, /pr-comments, /onboarding, /sandbox-toggle, /reload-plugins, /remote-env, /remote-setup.
Tips and messages with no effect: /good-claude, /advisor, /brief, /break-cache, /ant-trace, /backfill-sessions, /heapdump.
Tips: /btw shows one tip from a list of ten, and /btw <n> shows tip number n, counting from 0. A few of the tips are notes for people who build o4 from source.
Messages that point to things that don’t exist in 0.2.74:
- /release-notes points to a file in o4’s source repository.
- /terminal-setup suggests an o4 shell-init command.
- /debug-tool-call suggests a variable nothing reads.
- /rate-limit shows a request limit o4 doesn’t apply.
Output styles: /output-style lists the files in ~/.o4/output-styles/, but o4 can’t switch to them yet.

Instead of /add-dir, start o4 with --add-dir. For a security review, ask the model to use its security-review skill; see Skills. To change plugins, restart o4. For keyboard ways to quit, see Keyboard shortcuts.

​Commands while a task is running

​Core

​Configuration

​Session

​Tools

​MCP

​Memory

​Agents

​Skills

​Plugins

​Usage and status

​Not listed in /help

​Session and information

​Settings shortcuts

​Accounts and the model catalog

​Other names for listed commands

​Commands that do nothing yet

Commands while a task is running

Core

Configuration

Session

Tools

MCP

Memory

Agents

Skills

Plugins

Usage and status

Not listed in /help

Session and information

Settings shortcuts

Accounts and the model catalog

Other names for listed commands

Commands that do nothing yet