Slash commands

Slash commands run inside the Magic Coder TUI. Type / to open the suggestion menu, fuzzy-search by typing more characters, and press Enter or Tab to accept.

There are two kinds of slash commands:

• Built-in — implemented by the TUI itself. They affect client state (sign-in, theme, model selection, exit). They never produce assistant output.
• Skills — configured in BridgeApp. They expand into a prompt and trigger an agent turn. See Skills.

Built-in commands

Command	Aliases	What it does
/help	—	Open the keyboard shortcut overlay.
/login	—	Clear the saved sign-in and start a fresh OIDC flow against BridgeApp.
/logout	—	Clear the saved sign-in credential.
/model	—	Pick a model for the current thread. With autocomplete.
/reasoning-effort	/thinking	Pick a reasoning effort level.
/long-context	—	Toggle long-context mode for this session.
/theme	—	Switch the UI theme.
/clear	/reset	Start a clean conversation in the same workspace. Ends the current thread.
/exit	/quit	Exit Magic Coder.

/model

/model

Opens the model picker. Displays every active model on your BridgeApp account, grouped by provider, with the BridgeApp default marked (default).

/model gpt-5

Filters the picker to entries matching gpt-5. Fuzzy match is supported — /model opnr matches open-reasoner.

/model default

Clears the per-thread model override and falls back to your user default (or BridgeApp’s default if none is set).

If you’re not signed in, /model shows a single suggestion that triggers /login instead.

/reasoning-effort

/reasoning-effort

Opens the reasoning-effort picker.

/reasoning-effort high
/reasoning-effort xhigh
/reasoning-effort max         # alias for xhigh
/reasoning-effort default     # clear the override

/thinking is an alias of /reasoning-effort.

See Reasoning effort values for the canonical level table.

/theme

/theme
/theme light
/theme dark

Opens the theme picker, optionally filtered. Available themes today: Default (Dark) and Default (Light).

/long-context

A toggle. Run it to turn long-context mode on, run it again to turn it off. Status line shows a long-context badge while it’s active.

/clear (alias /reset)

Ends the current thread and starts a fresh conversation in the same workspace. The thread you cleared can still be resumed by UUID later if you saved one.

Useful after switching to a new task within the same repo, when leftover context would confuse the agent.

/exit (alias /quit)

Exits the TUI. If the thread is resumable, Magic Coder prints a coder --continue <uuid> hint before quitting.

Skill commands

Any Skill configured for your account appears as a slash command at runtime, e.g. /git-commit, /review-pr. They behave like normal user messages — the slash command expands into a prompt and the agent processes the result like any other turn.

Skills can be invoked at the start of a line, or inline mid-message. Built-in commands only autocomplete at the start of a line.

Behavior notes

• Slash commands work only on single-line input. If your input contains a newline, the slash menu doesn’t open.
• Commands are matched both by name and by description text. /sign will surface /login because of the description.
• Aliases are searchable but rank slightly below their canonical command name in the suggestion list.
• Pressing Esc closes the suggestion overlay without applying.

What works without sign-in

When you’re not signed in (no saved BridgeApp credential, or after /logout), only this subset of slash commands is runnable:

• /login, /help, /exit (/quit), /clear (/reset), /theme, /long-context

Other commands — /model, /reasoning-effort, /logout, plus skill commands — are filtered out of the suggestion list and blocked from execution. Plain text is also blocked from submission. Run /login first to unlock the rest.