Copilot Commands

How to Set Up Copilot Commands

You can toggle Copilot commands on/off in two places, in the Copilot settings under Command tab:

• In the context menu when you right click in the editor
• In slash command in the chat

How to Edit Copilot Commands

You can edit, add, and delete Copilot commands in two ways:

• In the Copilot settings under Command tab
• In the .md files in your custom prompts folder copilot-custom-prompts

How to Invoke Copilot Commands

You can invoke Copilot commands in three ways:

• Press Cmd + P (Mac) or Ctrl + P (Windows). In the search bar, type Copilot to list Copilot commands in the dropdown menu.
• Right-click selected text to see Copilot commands in the menu
• Slash command in the chat pane

Available Copilot Commands

Here's a list of all available Copilot commands in the Obsidian command palette (press cmd + P on Mac or ctrl + P on Windows).

• Add selection to chat context

  • Adds the selected text in note as context to chat

• Apply ad-hoc custom prompt

  • Opens a modal to enter and apply a one-time custom prompt

• Clear Copilot cache

  • Clears Copilot cache

• Clear local Copilot index

  • Clears the local vector store used for similarity search

• Count total tokens in your vault

  • Counts the number of total tokens of your vault

• Count words and tokens in selection

  • Counts and displays the number of words and tokens in the selected text

• Force reindex vault

  • Clears the vector store and re-indexes the entire vault

• Garbage collect Copilot index (remove files that no longer exist in vault)

  • Removes files that no longer exist in vault

• Index (refresh) vault

  • Indexes or refreshes the vault content in the vector store for question-answering

• Inspect Copilot index by note paths (debug)

  • Inspect Copilot index by note paths for debugging

• List all indexed files (debug)

  • Lists all indexed files for debugging purpose

• Load Copilot chat conversation

  • Opens a modal to load a previously saved chat conversation

• New Copilot Chat

  • Creates a new chat conversation

• Open Copilot Chat Window

  • Opens the Copilot Chat window in the right sidebar

• Remove files from Copilot index (debug)

  • Remove files from Copilot index for debugging

• Search OramaDB (debug)

  • Search OramaDB for debugging purposes

• Toggle Copilot Chat Window

  • Toggles the Copilot Chat window on/off in the right sidebar

• Toggle autocomplete

  • Enables autocomplete

• Word completion: Debug

  • Debug word completion functionality

These commands provide a wide range of text manipulation, analysis, and AI-assisted writing features within Obsidian.