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Helix is a natural-language router — you can just say what you want. The commands below are the explicit form of the same intents, grouped by the stage that owns them.

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General commands

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Lifecycle

/evaluate is what you want almost always — it’s the judge.

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Parts of Evaluate you can run alone

These start one part of Evaluate on its own. The dashboard shows them under Evaluator.

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Session commands

Helix also has commands that are not lifecycle intents — /clear, /exit, /rename, /thinking, /plan, /trace, /agents, /goal, /workflows, /cloud, and the mode-specific /agent, /prime, /refine. They are listed with what they do on Sessions.

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Natural-language queries work too

Every command has a natural-language equivalent, routed automatically to the stage that owns it — so you don’t have to memorise the command surface. These two do the same thing:
A few more phrasings and where they land: Type either form into the Helix prompt, or pass it to a headless run: helix -p "/diagnose support-triage". When a request is ambiguous, Helix asks a clarifying question instead of guessing — it never advances a stage you didn’t ask for.
Commands and plain English are interchangeable. Use whichever is fastest for you.