# Stop rendering native slash commands as user messages \(\#58935\) · gitcafe/zed

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Requested revision: 3ecb86952003ab70235658764a96a1a11b1413ae

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Commit: 3ecb86952003ab70235658764a96a1a11b1413ae

Tree: 802f869105c2fa0f2dd9d9c02241351d30395c35

Author: Richard Feldman

Committer: GitHub

## Message

```
Stop rendering native slash commands as user messages (#58935)

Running `/compact` rendered a `/compact` user-message bubble during the
live session, but that text is never sent to the model as an ordinary
user turn — it triggers a built-in compaction that produces its own
"Context compacted" entry. Showing the bubble was misleading (it implied
the model received `/compact`), and it was also inconsistent: after a
reload the bubble vanished, since the persisted thread only carries an
empty marker. This changes the direction so native slash commands are
never echoed as user messages at all, live or after reload.

`AcpThread` gains a `send_command` path that runs the turn (so the agent
still receives and handles `/compact`) without pushing a user-message
entry or capturing a git checkpoint. In the UI, `leading_native_command`
now matches a native command whether or not it has trailing text, so
both `/compact` and `/compact do X` route through the command path; the
queued-message path detects native commands too, so a `/compact` typed
while a turn is generating behaves the same. MCP/ACP commands are
unaffected and still render as normal user messages, since their text is
a real argument the agent consumes.

Release Notes:

- N/A

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Co-authored-by: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennetbo@gmx.de>
```

## Parents

- [806f3f9322b89446f2f48c1768db02839d862d2d](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zed/commit/806f3f9322b89446f2f48c1768db02839d862d2d?format=markdown)

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