Chapter 04 · Daily driving
Slash commands
Type / in Claude Code and a menu appears; these are shortcuts for the tool itself, not requests to Claude. There are nearly a hundred; here are the ones worth knowing, filterable. This same list powers this site's Ctrl K search.
| Command | What it does | More in |
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Can't remember any of these? You only need /help. It lists the rest, and typing / plus a few letters finds any of them. /clear is the one you'll actually type daily: use it every time you change topics.
A starter kit of seven
If the table feels like a lot, these cover a normal week: /clear (new topic), /resume (yesterday's session), /rewind (undo), /plan (look before leaping), /copy (grab the answer), /usage (what's this costing?), and /help (everything else).
Commands vs. just asking
Anything not starting with / goes to Claude as a normal request. You never need a command to get work done; commands just control the tool around the conversation (its memory, its settings, its history). And many commands have a plain-English equivalent: instead of remembering /export, you can just say "save this conversation to a file".