AI Commands

AI commands are commands run in the AI coding tool that start with slash \ or "at" @. 

Common AI commands in AI Coding Tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, VS Code) are:

• /explain: Analyzes the selected code block and explains its logic in plain English.
• /fix: Scans the selected code for bugs, errors, or security vulnerabilities and proposes a corrected version.
• /tests: Automatically generates unit tests for the active function or class.
• /docs: Generates standardized documentation comments (like JSDoc or Docstrings) for a piece of code.
• @workspace: Tells the AI to look at the entire project repository for context, rather than just the active file.
• @file:index.js: Pinpoints a specific file in the project to include in the AI's prompt context.

Slash commands in AI Coding Tools (Claude Code) are:

• /compact: Compresses a long chat history into a dense summary to save context window tokens.
• /clear: Wipes the active conversation completely so you can start a brand new coding task.
• /diff: Opens an interactive, visual Git diff showing every code change Claude made during the session.
• /code-review: Instructs Claude to scan your recent Git changes for security bugs, performance issues, and code quality.
• /commit: Analyzes your code edits and automatically generates an accurate, structured Git commit message.
• /init: Creates a CLAUDE.md file in your root folder, which serves as an architectural guide and instruction set for the AI.

 "at" commands in AI Coding Tools (Claude Code) are:

• Intelligent File Completion: Typing @src/components/ will trigger a dropdown in your terminal allowing you to select a file quickly.
• Targeting Context: Typing a prompt like @index.js fix the memory leak tells Claude to specifically pull that file artifact into its reasoning engine

Common AI commands in Productivity & Workspace Tools (Notion AI, Microsoft Copilot, Slack) are:

• /summarize: Condenses a long document, meeting transcript, or chat thread into bullet points.
• /translate [language]: Translates the selected document or message into a specified language.
• /brainstorm: Generates a quick list of ideas based on a topic prompt you provide.
• /tone [professional/casual]: Rewrites the existing text to match a specific communication style.
• /catchup: Used in team chat tools (like Slack) to get an AI summary of missed messages in a channel.

Common AI commands in Chat Assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) are:

• @Web or /search: Forces the AI to bypass its training data and fetch real-time information from the live internet.
• @DALL-E or /image: Switches the AI into an image generation mode to visualize a text description.
• /data: Triggers an advanced data analysis environment to run Python code against an uploaded CSV or Excel file.