Slash Commands
Slash commands are available inside the Feynman REPL. They map to research workflows, project utilities, and commands from the bundled Pi packages. Type /help inside the REPL for Feynman’s grouped command list.
Research workflows
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/deepresearch <topic> |
Run a thorough, source-heavy investigation and produce a research brief with inline citations |
/lit <topic-or-lab-or-author> |
Run a literature review on a topic, lab, PI, or author |
/review <artifact> |
Run an internal research critique with likely objections, severity, and a concrete revision plan |
/audit <item> |
Compare a paper’s claims against its public codebase for mismatches, omissions, and reproducibility risks |
/replicate <paper> |
Plan a replication workflow for a paper, claim, or benchmark; execute only after an explicit environment choice |
/recipe <task-or-paper> |
Find ranked, implementable ML training recipes backed by papers, datasets, docs, and code |
/compare <topic> |
Compare multiple sources and produce a matrix of agreements, disagreements, and confidence |
/draft <topic> |
Turn research findings into a paper-style draft |
/autoresearch <idea> |
Run a bounded experiment loop against a benchmark, keeping what works |
/summarize <source> |
Summarize a paper, report, README, local artifact, or PDF with the source kept on disk instead of in context |
Workflow prompts can call the bundled agents (researcher, reviewer, writer, verifier) through Pi’s subagent tool when delegation helps; narrow tasks stay lead-owned.
Project and session
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/log |
Write a durable session log with completed work, findings, open questions, and next steps |
/help |
Show grouped Feynman commands and prefill the editor with a selected command |
/init |
Bootstrap AGENTS.md and session-log folders for a research project |
/outputs |
Browse all research artifacts (papers, outputs, experiments, notes) |
/tools |
Browse public research tools with their source and parameter summary |
/service-tier |
View or set the provider service tier override for supported models |
Package commands
| Command | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
/btw <question> |
pi-btw |
Ask a side question while the main research agent is busy |
/search |
pi-web-access |
Browse stored web search results from the current session |
/websearch [queries] |
pi-web-access |
Open the search curator to run and review searches yourself |
/curator [on|off] |
pi-web-access |
Toggle the search curator workflow |
/subagents |
pi-subagents |
Inspect configured agents |
/run <agent> [task] [--bg] [--fork] |
pi-subagents |
Run one agent |
/hotkeys, /new, /quit |
Pi | Show keyboard shortcuts, start a new session, quit |
Research delegation
The current runtime does not provide /chain or /parallel commands. Research workflows call subagent directly for one child or use workflowScript for parallel or sequential work:
{
"workflowScript": "return await runs.all([{key:'papers',agent:'researcher',task:'Read outputs/.plans/<slug>-papers.md.',output:'<slug>-research-papers.md'},{key:'web',agent:'researcher',task:'Read outputs/.plans/<slug>-web.md.',output:'<slug>-research-web.md'}]);",
"async": true,
"globalConcurrencyLimit": 4
}For sequential work, await runs.run(key, {agent, task, output}) before starting the next step. Legacy top-level tasks, chain, and parallel inputs are rejected. runs.all returns an ordered array, including ordinary child failures; inspect each result’s ok and returned output references.
An async launch receipt is not completion: consume the result and verify child output paths before synthesis or dependent review. Ordinary background subagents notify their parent; bg_wait is for background work without a native completion notification.
Running workflows from the CLI
Every research workflow can also be run from the command line, for example feynman deepresearch "topic". See CLI Commands.