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Slash command

Also: 斜槓指令 · 斜線指令 · 自訂指令 · slash 指令

A short /command typed by the user that expands into a predefined workflow — triggered by a human, never selected by the model.

When you will meet it

You need one the day you notice yourself repeating the same three-minute briefing to the agent every morning. Confusing commands with skills picks the wrong mechanism: a skill is for the model to select on its own; a slash command is an explicit human order. Use the command for deterministic triggering, the skill for automatic adoption at the right moment.

An analogy

Like a text shortcut on your phone: typing @@ expands to your full address. You never retype the address, but you must type @@. A slash command is that shortcut for agents — except it expands into a whole workflow.

Minimal example

你輸入:  /dd 0700

展開成(示意):
  「對股票代號 0700 執行完整盡職調查:
    1. 用 hk-stock-dd 技能收集近三年財報
    2. 分析股權結構與關聯交易
    3. 輸出報告到 reports/ 目錄」

對照技能:你不打 /dd、只說「幫我看看這家公司」時,
        用不用技能、用哪一個,由模型自己判斷。

Note the split: slash commands solve deterministic triggering; skills solve method reuse. An expanded command can still invoke skills — they complement each other.

What people get wrong

  • Assuming slash commands are smarter than natural language. They add no intelligence; they expand a fixed brief verbatim — the value is determinism and saved typing, not capability.
  • Turning everything into slash commands and expecting the model to trigger them on its own. It will not — auto-triggering is the skill's job; a command only recognises the line the user types.

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