Slash Commands

When chatting with an OpenClaw Agent, use / commands to control its behavior.

Model Switching

Command	Description	Example
/model <alias or ID>	Switch the model for the current session	/model opus
/model list	List all available models and aliases	/model list
/model reset	Reset to the default model	/model reset

Common aliases (configured in models.aliases):

/model opus      # claude-opus-4-6 (strongest reasoning)
/model sonnet    # claude-sonnet-4-5 (balanced)
/model haiku     # claude-haiku (fastest)
/model gpt       # gpt-5.2
/model ds        # deepseek-chat

Context Management

Command	Description
/compact	Compress the current context (keep summary, save tokens)
/compact <instruction>	Compress with a custom instruction, e.g. /compact keep all code snippets
/clear	Clear the current session context (use with caution)
/context	Show current context usage (token count)
/memory	View the agent's persistent memory
/memory add <content>	Manually write an entry to agent memory
/memory clear	Clear all persistent agent memory

Thinking & Reasoning

Command	Description
/thinking on	Enable extended thinking mode (Opus 4.6+ only)
/thinking off	Disable extended thinking mode
/thinking budget <n>	Set max thinking token budget, e.g. /thinking budget 5000

Note: /thinking only works on models that support extended thinking (e.g. Claude Opus 4.6).

Tool Activation

Command	Description
/activation	View currently active tools / Skills
/activation <skill>	Activate a specific Skill
/tools list	List all available tools
/tools enable <tool>	Enable a specific tool
/tools disable <tool>	Disable a tool (for this session only)

System Control

Command	Description
/status	Show agent status (model, context, tools)
/restart	Restart the current agent session
/debug	Toggle debug mode for verbose logging
/help	Show all available slash commands
/version	Show current OpenClaw version

Files & Code

Command	Description	Example
/read <path>	Read a file and send its contents to the agent	/read ./config.json
/run <command>	Execute a shell command and return the result	/run ls -la
/paste	Enter paste mode for multi-line input	/paste

Usage Examples

Quick model comparison

/model haiku          # fast draft
(send your task)
/model opus           # deep processing
(send complex task)

Compress long conversations

/context             # check current token usage
/compact keep all completed task lists and code blocks
(continue the conversation without hitting context limits)

Activate a Skill for a specific task

/activation bird     # activate the Twitter bird skill
Find the most popular AI tweets from today

Enable deep reasoning

/model opus
/thinking on
/thinking budget 8000
Analyze the performance bottlenecks in this code...

Configuring Aliases (in openclaw.json)

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      models: {
        "anthropic/claude-opus-4-6": { alias: "opus" },
        "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5": { alias: "sonnet" },
        "anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5": { alias: "haiku" },
        "openai/gpt-5.2": { alias: "gpt" },
        "deepseek/deepseek-chat": { alias: "ds" },
      },
    },
  },
}

Tip: Slash commands work across all channels — Telegram, Feishu, Discord, and more.