Commands reference

The Isolation chat commands are the same in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, GitHub, Jira and Buzz, because every one of them is an action in one catalog and every app parses the same string. The table below is generated from that catalog, so it cannot go stale; /help in any chat prints it.

The grammar

• A command opens the message. /launch web is a command. "tell them to run /launch" is a sentence about one.
• The verb stands alone. /word followed by a space or the end of the line. /etc/hosts is wrong is a sentence and reaches the agent with its text intact.
• Arguments are words, positional and in order. Quotes make several words one argument: /launch "my app".
• key=value is the explicit form and always wins over position: /launch web environment=prod. There are no flags.
• Keywords introduce an argument: in an environment, on a server, as a name, by a member. They are read wherever they appear, so word order does not matter.
• A name is as many words as it is. A keyword's value, and the last positional argument, run to the next keyword or the end of the line: /launch on The Mac. Quote a name that contains a keyword: /launch "Check in".
• Nothing is inferred from a sentence. Not the verb, not the agent, not the workspace. A message that is not a command goes to the agent you picked, and an agent's name inside a sentence summons nobody.

Slack alone has a second spelling, /iso launch web, because it has a workspace-wide slash namespace; it is parsed by the same code as @Isolation /launch web. The details are on Slack and Microsoft Teams.

/launch web in staging on my-mac as "Demo for Friday"
/view web 3000
/agent Isla
/ask Isla run the tests and fix what fails

Reading the table

Each row is one action, with its chat spelling and what it needs. An action that needs a member runs as you anywhere. One that needs a session acts on the connected conversation's session; elsewhere it takes your only running session and says so, or asks with buttons. Role limits are the organization's roles. Every command is free except /ask, one turn with an agent. The same actions as MCP tools are on what an external agent can do.