Slash commands and keyboard shortcuts

Type / in the composer and a menu lists every command, with the arguments it expects. Keep typing to filter. Pick one with Enter, or type the whole line and press Enter to send it. Commands come in two kinds. Some expand into a prompt: /triage checkout becomes a full triage request with your argument filled in, and the message you sent still reads /triage checkout so you can see what shaped it. Others do something in the app: /mode yolo changes the posture and sends nothing.

Built-in commands

Command	Arguments	What it does
`/investigate`	`<issue>`	Starts a structured incident investigation.
`/triage`	`<service>`	Checks pods, recent events, logs and recent changes for a service, then gives a confidence-scored hypothesis.
`/rca`	`<incident>`	Produces a root-cause analysis: timeline, what changed, the root cause, the remediation.
`/rollback`	`<service> <version>`	Finds the recent change, proposes the exact rollback, and executes it under approval.
`/runbook`	`<topic>`	Finds and summarises the relevant runbook, with the exact steps.
`/handoff`		Writes an on-call handoff: open issues by severity, recent changes, work in flight, what to watch.
`/plan`	`<task>`	Investigates read-only and writes a reviewable plan. Nothing runs until you approve the plan.
`/init`		Scans the workspace and drafts a `kepler.md` with conventions worth keeping.
`/command`	`<description>`	Creates a new slash command from a description. See Custom commands.
`/agent`	`<description>`	Creates a read-only specialist agent you can delegate to later.
`/mode`	`<observe\|assist\|yolo>`	Switches the posture for this conversation. Bare `/mode` cycles to the next one.
`/model`		Opens the model picker for this conversation.
`/workspace`	`<add\|remove> <dir>`	Grants Kepler another folder, or takes one away. `/workspace add` with no path opens a folder picker.
`/otg`	`<channel> <sender>`	Drives this session from a phone channel, for example `/otg whatsapp`. `/otg off` unbinds it. See Channels.
`/new`		Starts a new session.
`/clear`		Clears the current conversation.
`/compact`		Compacts the context now to free up space.
`/memory`		Opens memory settings.
`/settings`		Opens settings.
`/help`	`<question>`	Opens the catalog of what Kepler can do. Add a question and it jumps to the matching feature.
`/shortcuts`		Opens the keyboard shortcuts sheet.
`/effort`	`<auto\|low\|medium\|high>`	Sets how hard the model reasons for this session. Higher levels are offered where the model supports them. `auto` hands the choice back to Settings. Bare `/effort` opens the picker.
`/connect`	`<host \| user@host>`	Connects to a machine so Kepler can work there: a machine it already knows, by name or prefix (`/connect pi5`), or a new `user@host`. A terminal tab opens only if the host asks you for something. See Remote access.

A few examples as you would type them:

/triage checkout
/rollback payments-api v2.14.0
/plan move the ingress controller to the new node pool
/mode assist

Custom commands

A custom command is a Markdown file. The file name is the command name, and the body is the prompt Kepler receives. Put $ARGUMENTS where your input should go. Two places to keep them:

Location	Scope
`~/.kepler/commands/<name>.md`	Every workspace.
`<workspace>/.kepler/commands/<name>.md`	This workspace only. Overrides a global command with the same name.

A file looks like this:

---
description: Weekly capacity brief for one namespace
argument-hint: <namespace>
---
Write a capacity brief for the $ARGUMENTS namespace: CPU and memory requests
versus usage over the last 7 days, pods near their limits, and what to resize.

Save it as capacity-brief.md and /capacity-brief checkout appears in the menu. description is what the menu shows, and argument-hint is the placeholder next to it. Both are optional. If there is no description, the first line of the body is used. Positional arguments work too: $1, $2 and so on pick out the first, second and later words, and quoted arguments count as one word. {{args}} is accepted as an alias for $ARGUMENTS. A command with no placeholder gets your arguments appended to the end. The quickest way to make one is to ask:

/command write a weekly capacity brief for a namespace

Kepler picks a name, writes the description and body, and saves the file. It defaults to the global folder unless you say “this workspace”. Skills also appear in the / menu, marked Skill. A skill is not a request, it is an approach: picking one tells Kepler how to handle the message you write yourself. A skill takes no arguments, can sit anywhere in the line, and several can ride one message.

/postmortem-format write up yesterday's checkout outage

Skills live in ~/.kepler/skills/<name>/SKILL.md for every workspace, or <workspace>/.kepler/skills/<name>/SKILL.md for one. Drop a folder there, or manage them under Settings > Customize. Claude Code skill folders are read as they are. See Extend Kepler for writing one.

Keyboard shortcuts

macOS shortcuts use Cmd. On Windows and Linux use Ctrl in its place, except where the table says otherwise.

Window and panels

Shortcut	Action
`Cmd+N`	New session
`Cmd+O`	Open a workspace folder
`Cmd+K`	Search sessions, messages, workspaces and settings
`Cmd+\`	Show or hide the sidebar
`Cmd+J`	Show or hide the Terminal
`Cmd+B`	Show or hide the Browser
`Cmd+E`	Show or hide the Editor
`Cmd+M`	Show or hide Memory
`Cmd+,`	Open Settings
`Esc`	Return a center-staged panel to the side
`Cmd+=` / `Cmd+-`	Zoom the interface in or out
`Cmd+0`	Reset zoom

Composer

Shortcut	Action
`Enter`	Send
`Shift+Enter`	New line
`Shift+Tab`	Cycle posture: Observe, Assist, Yolo
`/`	Open the command menu
`@`	Attach context: a file or folder, another chat, a browser tab, a terminal, or a service, incident, runbook or watcher Kepler knows
`!` at the start of an empty line	Operator shell mode. Run a command yourself and Kepler reads the output.
`Tab` on an empty composer	Accept the suggested prompt
`Esc`	Stop the running turn, cancel an edit, or leave shell mode
Any letter, anywhere in the window	Focuses the composer and starts typing

Approvals

Shortcut	Action
`Cmd+Enter`	Run the pending command once
`Cmd+Shift+Enter`	This session: allow the command’s prefix for this conversation, or trust an unrecognised command as read-only
`Esc`	Reject

Terminal panel

macOS	Windows and Linux	Action
`Cmd+C`	`Ctrl+Shift+C`	Copy the selection
`Cmd+V`	`Ctrl+Shift+V`	Paste

Plain Ctrl+C in the terminal goes to the running program, as it does in any shell.

Where to go next

Extend Kepler

Skills, specialist agents and MCP servers.

Postures

What /mode changes and what each posture asks you about.

The workspace

The panels these shortcuts open.

Workflows

Prompt recipes built on /triage, /rca and /runbook.

Get started

Using Kepler

Workflows

Reference

Slash commands and keyboard shortcuts

Built-in commands

Custom commands

Skills in the menu

Keyboard shortcuts

Window and panels

Composer

Approvals

Terminal panel

Where to go next

Extend Kepler

Postures

The workspace

Workflows

​Built-in commands

​Custom commands

​Skills in the menu

​Keyboard shortcuts

​Window and panels

​Composer

​Approvals

​Terminal panel

​Where to go next

Extend Kepler

Postures

The workspace

Workflows

Built-in commands

Custom commands

Skills in the menu

Keyboard shortcuts

Window and panels

Composer

Approvals

Terminal panel

Where to go next