REPL slash commands

Inside the agent loop REPL, type /help for the full list:

Command	Description
/help	Show available commands
/clear	Summarize and clear the current conversation
/model [name]	Show or switch LLM model mid-session (tab-complete shows up to 10 suggestions)
/model default [name]	Show or set the default startup model, persisted to ~/.kdeps/agent-loop-settings.yaml
/model list	List all available models with provider status
/model ps	List running local model servers (llamafile/gguf) with PID, port, and health
/model ps kill <model>	Kill a running local model server and clean up its port file
/model ps switch <model>	Switch the active model to a running local server
/model hff search <query>	Search HuggingFace for GGUF repos (sorted by downloads)
/model hff info <repo>	List GGUF files and sizes available in a HuggingFace repo
/model hff download <repo> [file]	Download a GGUF from HuggingFace; auto-registers an alias for /model
/model tool [list]	Show agent loop settings: tool rounds, retries, retry delay, compaction, history caps, stall timeout, auto-allocation
/model tool set <setting> <value>	Change a setting, e.g. set rounds 80 (0 = unlimited), set compact-threshold 40k, set retry-delay 5s, set stall-timeout 5m, set autokill on. Settings are persisted to ~/.kdeps/agent-loop-settings.yaml and restored next session
/skills	List loaded skills
/prompts	List loaded prompt templates
/<skill-name> [prompt]	Invoke a skill or prompt template directly
/compact	Summarize history to free context
/history	Show conversation history
/thinking [off|minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|auto]	Enable extended reasoning (Claude only; warns if current model does not support it); persists across sessions
/prompt	Show the exact LLM request for the last turn (system prompt, messages, tool schemas)
/prompt raw	Same, unformatted - the raw JSON payload sent to the model
/permission [read-only|workspace-write|danger-full-access|ask]	Show or set the tool permission mode; persists across sessions (see Permission modes)
/session list|save|load|delete|checkpoint|goto|branches|import	Manage saved sessions and navigate branching history
/editor	Open current input in $EDITOR (ctrl+g)
/copy	Copy last assistant response to clipboard
/reload	Reload skills and prompt templates from disk
/context	Show current context window size
/context <size>	Set context window size (e.g. 32768 or 32k); restarts local model servers with the new --ctx-size; persists across sessions
/turo	Show turo reducer status (state, level). Only available when the turo binary is on PATH
/turo on|off	Enable or disable prompt reduction at runtime
/turo lite|full|ultra	Set the turo compression level
/turo <stage> on|off	Toggle a pipeline stage: filler, synonyms, gloss, defmatch, arrows
/goal	Show the active goal's task list and status
/goal new <text>	Replace the active goal with a new plan
/goal skip	Abandon the active task and advance to the next
/goal clear	Drop the active goal
/judges	Show the configured judge panel (reviews each turn's final output - see Judge panel)
/judges add <name> <criteria>	Add a judge to the explicit roster
/judges remove <name>	Remove a judge from the explicit roster
/judges auto [on|off]	Show or toggle a per-turn auto-generated roster; persists across sessions
/judges clear	Disable the judge panel (drops the explicit roster and turns off auto-judges)
/memory	Show memory store overview: entry count and the 10 most recently updated entries (with values)
/memory list	List every stored memory entry with a truncated value preview
/memory search <query>	Search memory keys and values for a substring
/memory show <key>	Show one entry's full value, type, timestamps, and its dependency graph node (the same <graph-node> block the model receives in its prompt)
/settings	Open the tool/skill selector
/exit	Exit the REPL
! <cmd>	Run a shell command; the output becomes an agent turn - the model responds and can act on it (e.g. !make lint -> the model fixes the findings)
!! <cmd>	Run a shell command silently - no LLM turn, nothing added to context
@<path>	Inline a file's contents (text) or attach it (image) into the next turn, e.g. explain @main.go
/autocontext [on|off]	Show or toggle auto-detecting command/file mentions in plain chat text (on by default, persists across sessions)
/tools [full|lean]	Show or toggle the lean/full tool set (full by default, persists across sessions - see Lean mode)
/upgrade	Check for a newer kdeps release and, for a standalone install, download/verify/install it (see Updating kdeps)
/upgrade nightly	Same, but checks the nightly channel instead of the latest stable release (see Nightly builds)
/login	m365 backend only: open a browser window to (re-)sign in, even if a session is already cached (see M365 Copilot)

Auto-detected commands and files

!cmd and @path require you to know kdeps' own syntax. Auto-context detection covers the common case where you just describe what you want in plain English - but only fires on a command or file mention wrapped in quotes (single or double); an unquoted mention in plain prose is never offered:

you type: "can you run \"df -h\" and take a look at \"main.go\"?"
              |
              v
kdeps scans the quoted spans for a read-only command ("df -h")
and an existing, readable file ("main.go")
              |
              v
"Detected in your message:
   command: df -h
   file: main.go
 Run the command(s) / include the file(s)? [y/N]"
              |
       y -----+----- n/Enter
       |             |
       v             v
runs `df -h`,   sends your original
inlines         text completely
main.go, sends  unchanged
the turn

Only text inside "..." or '...' is ever scanned - typing can you check df -h for me with no quotes triggers nothing, even though df -h is a recognized command. Quoting "df -h" is what tells auto-context you mean it literally.

The same scan finds existing, readable text files by name (look at "main.go") and offers to inline them like @main.go would - images/binaries are never auto-detected, use an explicit @path instead. Only a strict allowlist of read-only commands is offered (ls, df, ps, git status, go env, docker ps, etc.); destructive commands (rm, git commit, go build, docker rm, ...) never match, even quoted. One confirmation covers everything in a message; declining (or pressing Enter) sends your text unchanged.

Pipes and command substitution are recognized too, as long as every stage is allowlisted: "ps aux | grep -i kdeps" runs as one pipeline provided each |-separated stage is read-only (a stage like xargs rm invalidates the whole thing); $(git rev-parse HEAD) needs no extra quoting - its $(...) body is checked the same way, and anything that could chain a second command inside the parens (;, &, `, a nested $() is rejected outright.

Disable it for the session with /autocontext off if the confirmation prompt gets in your way; /autocontext on re-enables it, and /autocontext alone shows the current state.

See also

• Agent loop mode - overview and starting the REPL
• Built-in tools - tools available to the model
• Goal-directed execution