Slash Commands
Type / in the interactive TUI to run built-in commands for common actions:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/clear | Clear conversation history |
/init | Analyze the project and create an AGENTS.md file |
/exit | Exit Ante |
/compact [instructions] | Free context by compacting older history; optional instructions steer what the handoff summary emphasizes or preserves |
/config | Open the settings dialog — search, toggle, and jump into the theme, model, provider, status line, MCP, and offline dialogs (see Preferences) |
/theme | Open theme selection dialog |
/diff | Show git diff (including untracked files) |
/connect | Sign in with OAuth (API keys are detected automatically) |
/models [model_id] | With no argument, open the model and effort picker for the current provider; with a model id, switch to it directly — including ids the catalog does not list |
/providers | Select an available provider for the current session |
/add-provider | Set up a custom provider in catalog.json — discovers the endpoint's models and can probe which effort levels each accepts (see Custom catalog) |
/offline-mode | Run a local model with the built-in inference engine |
/term [name [args...]] | With no name, open the terminal-session picker; with a name, attach or detach that tmux session, launching a same-named command plus arguments when the session is new — see Terminal sessions |
/update [skip | cancel] | Schedule the pending update for installation on exit; skip dismisses that version and cancel unschedules an accepted update |
/context | Visualize current context usage as a colored grid, broken down by category |
/usage | Show what the session has spent so far — token counts per model, cache hit rate, and turn count (see Session usage) |
/welcome | Show the welcome/onboarding dialog |
/resume | Resume a previous session in this directory |
/rename [title] | Give the session a title, shown in the resume picker and the terminal tab; with no argument, clear it (see Session title) |
/resume-claude [id] | Continue a recent Claude Code session in this directory (a bundled skill — see Coming from Claude Code or Codex) |
/resume-codex [id] | Continue a recent Codex session in this directory (a bundled skill) |
/import-claude | Copy Claude Code's project memory for this directory into Ante's project memory |
/statusline | Configure the status line |
/mcp | Inspect and manage configured MCP servers |
/goal [<condition> | clear] | Keep working until a condition is met, clear the active goal, or show goal status |
note
Some commands are "visible" (appear in conversation history) and others are "silent" (execute without adding to history). /clear, /init, /exit, /compact, /context, /usage, /goal, and /rename are visible; the rest are silent.
Skills as slash commands
Skills also appear as slash commands, with scope indicators: [p] for project-level, [u] for user-level, and [s] for system-level skills.
As you type, tokens that match a known command or skill name are highlighted in the composer, so you can see at a glance that a command is recognized before you send it.
Related
/modelsand/providersare two halves of one flow; see Models, Providers & Effort./goalpowers goal-driven sessions: keep working until a success condition is met./resumepicks up a previous conversation; see session resume./renamelabels the current session so/resumecan show it by name; see session title.