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Permission modes

The colored bar at the bottom of the screen always shows the current permission mode. Press Shift+Tab to cycle through the four modes:
Even in bypass permissions mode, genuinely dangerous actions — rm -rf, sudo, or writing to ~/.ssh — still stop and ask for confirmation.

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Commands you’ll actually use

Slash commands work from the prompt inside the CLI:

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Staying up to date

New versions add models, fix bugs, and expand what the CLI can do. You don’t reinstall — you update. Easiest: the CLI checks for new versions itself. When it offers one, press y. To check any time while it’s running, type /update. Manual: quit the CLI with /exit, then run this (same on Mac and Windows):
Confirm it worked:
Check that the number went up. If it still shows the old version, close the window, open a new one, and check again.
Running into errors? See Mesh CLI debugging.