Slash commands

Quick reference. For the full guide — every built-in with its arguments, the web/desktop subset, aliases, and worked examples — see features/slash-commands.md.

Type / at the start of a message to run a command (in the REPL or the web chat). Built-ins cover the session controls — /help, /model, /effort, /fast, /plan, /auto, /goal, /compact, /reset, /tools, /json, /notools, /forcetool, /image, /audio, /reload. Run /help for the full list.

Custom commands

Drop a markdown file at ~/.evi/commands/<name>.md and it becomes /<name>. The file's contents are sent as your next message, after substitution. Modelled on Claude Code's custom commands.

Frontmatter (optional)

---
description: Draft a conventional-commit message
argument-hint: [scope]
model: qwen2.5-coder:14b-instruct-q4_K_M
---
Look at the staged diff and write a commit message for $ARGUMENTS.

description — shown in /help.
argument-hint — documents the expected arguments.
model — surfaced to the UI as the command's preferred model.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS — everything typed after the command name.
$1, $2, … $9 — positional args (shell-split; quote to group: /review "two words" tail → $1 = two words).
{args} — legacy alias for $ARGUMENTS (still works).

/commit auth with the file above sends: "Look at the staged diff and write a commit message for auth."

File references

@path/to/file inlines that file's contents (fenced) if it exists — handy for templates that should always include a checklist or style guide. Tokens that aren't readable files (emails, @handles) are left untouched.

Namespacing

Subdirectories become :-separated names: ~/.evi/commands/git/commit.md → /git:commit.

Not supported

!bash execution blocks are intentionally not run — auto-executing shell on command expansion is too sharp an edge for eVi's permission model. Use a tool (with its permission prompt) or a Skill for anything that needs to run code.