Commands Deep Dive

Plan before implementation

Use /plan for work with several dependent steps or meaningful architectural choices. A good plan is concrete enough to verify and small enough to update as evidence changes.

/plan
Migrate authentication to passkeys while preserving existing sessions.

Review at the right scope

Use the review surface for unstaged, staged, last-turn, or branch changes. Review should prioritize correctness and regressions, cite exact files, and avoid inventing findings just to fill a quota.

• Unstaged: Working tree changes
• Staged: Ready-to-commit diff
• Branch: Compare with a base ref

Manage context intentionally

Compact when the task history is long but the active objective is stable. Fork when you need to explore a materially different path without contaminating the original task.

/compact
/fork
/model
/ide-context

Choose speed and reasoning

Use the model and reasoning controls supported by the current host. Faster settings suit focused edits; deeper reasoning suits ambiguous architecture, diagnosis, and multi-system work.