Daily Use

Session management

Switch workspace

/cwd                     # View current workspace
/cwd /path/to/project    # Switch to another project

Switch session

/session                 # Open session picker, switch to another session

Compress long sessions

When the conversation gets too long, agent quality drops. Run a compression to clean up old context:

/compact

New session vs. continue

Scenario	Recommendation
Finished a feature, starting unrelated bug fix	New session
Continuing to refine the same feature	Continue current session
Switching to a completely different project	New session + switch workspace
Session is long and responses drift	Try /compact first, then new session if needed

Memory

Memory saves preferences and project facts across sessions — no need to repeat yourself.

Common operations

/memo                              # View all memories
/remember I prefer powershell      # Save a memory
/forget powershell                 # Delete matching memory

Memory vs. Skills

• Memory: Saves facts and preferences, persists across sessions. E.g. "I prefer powershell", "This project uses Go 1.25"
• Skills: Saves workflow hints, active in current session. E.g. "Read before modifying"

Quick rule: Need it across sessions → memory. Need a special workflow for the current task → skill.

Skills

Skills are workflow hints that influence agent behavior in the current session. For authoring and loading rules, see Skills.

Common operations

/skills                  # View available skills
/skill use go-review     # Activate a skill in current session
/skill off go-review     # Deactivate a skill
/skill active            # View active skills in current session

Quick rule: need a special workflow for the current task → enable a Skill; need a long-term fact → use memory; need a real external tool → use MCP.

Subagents

The agent can launch subagents to handle subtasks in parallel — e.g. a researcher to search, a reviewer to check results. You don't need to trigger this manually; the agent decides when to use subagents.

If you want to encourage subagent use, say something like:

Use the researcher role to search all compact-related function signatures in internal/runtime
Use the reviewer role to check if the recent changes meet test coverage requirements

Next steps

• Configure models and providers: Configuration
• What the agent can do and when it needs approval: Tools & permissions
• Write or activate a Skill: Skills
• Something wrong: Troubleshooting