Chat Commands

Chat commands

These work in every chat app and in the terminal. Type them like messages.

Command	What it does
/help	list all commands
/status	model, privacy, thinking, token usage and cost
/new or /reset	start fresh, clears this chat's history
/privacy ghost|session|recall	how much is remembered, see Memory
/lean off|lean|grunt	answer style: normal, concise, maximum terse
/thinking off|low|medium|high	extended reasoning effort
/model NAME	switch model, aliases like opus, sonnet, gpt, gemini work
/models	live list from your provider
/compact	squash a long conversation into a summary, keeps the facts
/usage	tokens and estimated cost
/tools	what tools are currently loaded
/tasks	background tasks, add cancel ID to stop one
/session	where this chat's history lives
/forget	drop a remembered note
/whoami	how phoenix sees you and this chat
/pending, /approve ID, /deny ID	shell approvals, see Security
/stop	interrupt what it is doing

Running out of room?

Long conversations shrink themselves. When history gets close to the model's limit, phoenix summarizes the older half and carries on, so a day-long chat does not hit a wall. Want it now? /compact. Add words after it to steer the summary, like /compact focus on the deploy steps.

Live progress

While phoenix works you see a note that updates as tools run, for example 🔥 working... 🧰 shell: cargo test, and it disappears when the answer arrives.

Changes apply to that chat only and last until /new. Defaults live in the config: Configuration.