How-To Series · Episode 07 / 59 · Module 2: Daily Driver

Hermes · The Five Slash Commands

Forty-plus slash commands. Five do the job. Memorize these and you'll never open the docs for a CLI command again.

After this videoYou can now drive Hermes without opening the docs.

Hermes ships with over forty slash commands. Most are reference noise. Five run the show day-to-day: /new, /resume, /model, /goal, and /skills plus every installed skill auto-registered as its own slash command. This video walks each one with its gotcha called out.

About these resources. Four docs pages contributed facts to this video: the Slash Commands Reference (the catalog), the CLI reference (the skill auto-registration rule), the Persistent Goals page (the Ralph loop walkthrough for /goal), and the CLI commands reference (the /model vs hermes model distinction). The Sources block names all four.

Sources · What this video distills

4 docs pages · every command below is traceable to one of them

Primary · the full catalog (/new line 39, /resume line 54, /sessions line 55, /model line 68, /goal line 52)

Slash Commands Reference

Where the skill-auto-registration rule comes from (line 175)

CLI reference

The Ralph loop walkthrough for /goal

Persistent Goals

The /model vs hermes model distinction (line 167)

CLI commands reference

Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from

Start a fresh, pre-titled sessionfrom Slash Commands Reference ↗

/new payments refactor

Resume a past session by namefrom Slash Commands Reference ↗

/resume payments refactor

Browse past sessions interactivelyfrom Slash Commands Reference ↗

/sessions

Switch model for this sessionfrom Slash Commands Reference ↗

/model claude-sonnet-4

Switch model and save as defaultfrom CLI commands reference ↗

/model gpt-5 --global

Set a standing goal (Ralph loop)from Persistent Goals ↗

/goal fix all lint errors and pass the tests

Browse the skills hubfrom Slash Commands Reference ↗

/skills browse

Trigger an installed skillfrom CLI reference ↗

/plan migrate auth, zero downtime

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above

What skills are and how to install more (covered in E35).

Sessions overview

Deeper story for /resume, /sessions, branching, handoff (covered in E09).

Next in the series · Episodes that build on this

E08

Pick Your Brain (Switching Models)

E09

Sessions: Resume Anywhere

E35

Custom Slash Commands With Skills

E37

Set A Goal, Walk Away