claude-code-slash-commands

A guide for creating and configuring Claude Code slash commands. Slash commands are reusable prompts saved as files and run with a command such as `/name`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create project, personal, or plugin commands; add arguments or shell execution; configure command settings; and troubleshoot command behavior.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing how command files, arguments, shell commands, and settings should be structured.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-slash-commands
Any agent
npx skills add emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins --skill claude-code-slash-commands
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,034 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00057 $0.02034
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01017
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00203

Measured 2d ago against content hash 95af6e784e15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-slash-commands scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/create_slash_command.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/claude-code-meta/skills/claude-code-slash-commands/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Slash Commands

Guide Claude through creating and configuring custom slash commands for Claude Code.

Purpose

Slash commands let users define frequently-used prompts as Markdown files that Claude can execute on demand. This skill helps create well-structured slash commands with proper frontmatter, arguments, bash execution, and other advanced features.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating new custom slash commands (project or personal)
  • Adding arguments, bash execution, or file references to commands
  • Configuring frontmatter options (allowed-tools, model, argument-hint, etc.)
  • Troubleshooting slash command issues

Command Types

Project Commands

  • Stored at: .claude/commands/
  • Shared with the team (versioned in git)
  • Shown as (project) in /help

Personal Commands

  • Stored at: ~/.claude/commands/
  • Available across all projects
  • Shown as (user) in /help

Plugin Commands

  • Stored at: commands/ in plugin root
  • Distributed via plugin marketplaces
  • Shown as (plugin:plugin-name) in /help
  • Invoked with /plugin-name:command-name or just /command-name
  • Support all features (arguments, frontmatter, bash, file references)

Creating Slash Commands

Quick Creation with Helper Script

Use the bundled creation script for fast, templated command setup:

# Create project command with basic template
scripts/create_slash_command.sh my-command --project

# Create personal command with advanced template
scripts/create_slash_command.sh my-command --user --template advanced

# Create plugin command (auto-detects plugin from current directory)
scripts/create_slash_command.sh my-command --plugin

# Create plugin command for specific plugin
scripts/create_slash_command.sh my-command --plugin my-plugin-name

# Available templates: basic, arguments, bash, advanced

The script is located at: scripts/create_slash_command.sh

Plugin command creation:

  • Use --plugin to create commands in a plugin's commands/ directory
  • Auto-detects plugin when run from within a plugin directory
  • Or specify plugin name: --plugin my-plugin-name
  • Reminds you to register the command in marketplace.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 289 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 95af6e784e15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-slash-commands is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,034 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.