diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
index a451ae2..9d7949d 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
@@ -792,6 +792,69 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
     }
     function clearDraft() { try { localStorage.removeItem(DRAFT_KEY); } catch (_) {} }
 
+    // ── Slash commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    // Typed rather than clicked, for the panels that live on a screen with no pointer near them.
+    // Everything here is also reachable by mouse or Alt-key; this is a third route to the same
+    // controls, never the only route to any of them.
+    function runCommand(raw) {
+      const parts = raw.slice(1).trim().split(/\s+/);
+      const cmd   = (parts.shift() || '').toLowerCase();
+      const arg   = parts.join(' ');
+      const clear = () => { $('input').value = ''; clearDraft(); };
+
+      // Toggles a checkbox the page owns, if it gave us one. Reports the resulting state rather
+      // than the requested one, so a command against a control this profile does not have says so.
+      const flip = (elId, label) => {
+        const c = elId ? document.getElementById(elId) : null;
+        if (!c) { noteLine(label + ' is not available on this profile.'); return; }
+        c.checked = !c.checked;
+        noteLine(label + (c.checked ? ' on' : ' off') + ' for the next question.');
+      };
+
+      switch (cmd) {
+        case 'new':   clear(); newChat(); $('input').focus(); return;
+        case 'saved': { clear(); const hb = $('hist-b'); if (hb) hb.click(); return; }
+        case 'web':   clear(); flip(o.webEl,   'Web search'); return;
+        case 'think': clear(); flip(o.thinkEl, 'Reasoning');  return;
+        case 'retry': clear(); lastAction('retry'); return;
+        case 'edit':  clear(); lastAction('edit');  return;
+
+        case 'profile': {
+          clear();
+          // Read from the rendered menu rather than a second list in JS — one source of truth for
+          // which profiles exist, and it cannot drift from what the picker offers.
+          const opts = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(`#${P}-menu [data-prof]`))
+                            .map(b => b.dataset.prof);
+          if (!arg) { noteLine('Profiles: ' + opts.join(', ')); return; }
+          const want = opts.find(x => x.toLowerCase() === arg.toLowerCase())
+                    || opts.find(x => x.toLowerCase().startsWith(arg.toLowerCase()));
+          if (!want) { noteLine('No profile matching "' + arg + '". Try: ' + opts.join(', ')); return; }
+          setProfile(want);
+          noteLine('Profile is now ' + want + '.');
+          return;
+        }
+
+        case 'scope': {
+          clear();
+          const s = (typeof o.scope === 'function' ? o.scope() : (o.scope || ''));
+          noteLine(s ? ('Scoped to ' + s) : 'Not scoped to anything in particular.');
+          return;
+        }
+
+        case 'help': case '?': {
+          clear();
+          noteLine('/new  /saved  /retry  /edit  /profile [name]  /scope  /web  /think  /help');
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Unknown commands are not sent to the model. A typo'd command is a typo, and answering it
+      // as a question wastes 40 seconds to say it does not understand.
+      noteLine('No such command: /' + cmd + ' — try /help');
+      $('input').value = '';
+      clearDraft();
+    }
+
     // ── Ask / poll ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     function send() {
       // Never fail silently on a stuck flag. A turn that ends without finish() — a throw, a poll
@@ -806,6 +869,15 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
       const q = $('input').value.trim();
       if (!q) return;
 
+      // Slash commands are handled before anything else, so one is never sent to the model as a
+      // question. Checked ahead of beforeSend too: a page claiming typed text wants questions,
+      // not "/new".
+      //
+      // The pattern is deliberately strict — a bare word of letters, then whitespace or the end.
+      // "/mnt/user/appdata is filling up" is a perfectly ordinary question on this machine, and a
+      // looser "starts with a slash" test swallowed it as a command.
+      if (/^\/[a-z?]+(\s|$)/i.test(q)) { runCommand(q); return; }
+
       // A page may claim what was typed instead of asking it. The Scheduler does this once, after
       // an offer is accepted, when the next thing typed is the fix being recorded rather than a
       // question. Checked here rather than in a wrapper the page calls, because Ask and Ctrl+Enter
@@ -1400,6 +1472,9 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
               e.preventDefault();
               inp.value = messages[i].content;
               inp.setSelectionRange(inp.value.length, inp.value.length);
+              // Setting .value in script fires no input event, so the draft would still hold
+              // whatever was there before the recall.
+              saveDraft();
               break;
             }
           }
@@ -1411,7 +1486,11 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
                        || (histWrap && histWrap.classList.contains('open'));
           closeMenus();
           // Only clears once there is no menu left to close, so one Escape never does two things.
-          if (!wasOpen && e.target === inp && inp.value !== '') { e.preventDefault(); inp.value = ''; }
+          // clearDraft too, or Escape would empty the box and the text would reappear on the next
+          // tab swap — an Escape that does not actually discard anything.
+          if (!wasOpen && e.target === inp && inp.value !== '') {
+            e.preventDefault(); inp.value = ''; clearDraft();
+          }
           return;
         }
 
@@ -1599,6 +1678,7 @@ function vv_ai_chat_keys(): array {
     return [
         ['keys' => ['Ctrl', 'Enter'], 'what' => 'Ask',                        'id' => 'send'],
         ['keys' => ['↑'],             'what' => 'Your last question, to edit', 'id' => 'recall'],
+        ['keys' => ['/'],             'what' => 'Command — /help lists them',   'id' => 'slash'],
         ['keys' => ['Esc'],           'what' => 'Close a menu, or clear the box', 'id' => 'esc'],
         ['keys' => ['Alt', 'N'],      'what' => 'New conversation',           'id' => 'new'],
         ['keys' => ['Alt', 'E'],      'what' => 'Expand or collapse',         'id' => 'grow'],