Skills & Commands

Skills and commands are both invoked with a / prefix, but they serve different purposes. Skills inject structured prompts that guide the AI through a specific workflow. Commands trigger UI actions like switching models or managing sessions.

Built-in skills

Caboose ships with eleven built-in skills. Type the slash command to activate one — the skill injects a carefully designed prompt template that steers the agent through a proven methodology.

Skill	Purpose
/brainstorm	Diverge-then-converge design exploration
/plan	Granular implementation planning with file targets
/debug	Reproduce-bisect-read-prove fault isolation
/tdd	RED-GREEN-REFACTOR test-driven development
/review	Iterative code review using the Rule of Five
/refactor	Guided refactoring with safety checks
/optimize	Performance analysis and improvement
/explain	Code explanation and documentation
/test	Test generation and coverage analysis
/finish	Quality gates, diff audit, and handoff checklist
/handoff	Compact session summary for continuity

Each skill template includes a $ARGS placeholder. Text you type after the skill name is interpolated into that slot — /plan add OAuth support passes “add OAuth support” as the argument.

Skills can be toggled on or off individually via /settings. Disabled skills don’t appear in autocomplete or /skills.

User-defined skills

Create custom skills that override built-ins or add entirely new workflows. Skill files live in two locations:

• Project-level: .caboose/skills/ in your repository root
• Global: ~/.config/caboose/skills/

Project-level skills take precedence. If a user skill shares a name with a built-in, the user version wins.

Scaffold a new skill interactively with /create-skill <name> <goal>. Caboose generates a template you can then edit. List all available skills with /skills.

Commands

Commands trigger immediate UI actions — they don’t send prompts to the LLM.

Session management

Command	Action
/new	Start a fresh session
/sessions	Browse and resume past sessions
/title <name>	Rename the current session
/status	Show current provider, model, token usage, and session cost
/undo	Rewind to the most recent file-change checkpoint

Providers and models

Command	Action
/connect	Add or update a provider API key
/model	Switch the active model
/reasoning	Set thinking level (Off / Low / Medium / High)

Codebase

Command	Action
/init	Initialize .caboose/ in the current project
/suggest	Scan codebase for issues: runs lint, tests, TODO/FIXME grep, and git churn
/workspace	Register a sibling repo as a multi-repo workspace

Memory

Command	Action
/memories	View and manage session memories
/forget	Clear stored memories

Tools and integrations

Command	Action
/mcp	Manage MCP server connections
/roundhouse	Launch a multi-model parallel planning session
/circuit <prompt> --interval <t>	Create a recurring scheduled task
/circuits	List and manage active circuits
/migrate	Import config from Claude Code, Open Code, or Codex

Interface

Command	Action
/settings	Open settings (mode, theme, skills, etc.)
/skills	List all available skills
/create-skill	Scaffold a new user skill
/terminal	Open an embedded terminal pane
/handoff	Generate a session handoff summary

Open the command palette with Ctrl+K to fuzzy-search across all skills and commands.