Commands

A command is a message to Bishop rather than to the agent, sent in a Slack or Teams conversation. Bishop runs it and answers in the thread, and the agent is never told about either. Email has no commands.

A message is a command when the whole message is inline code opening with ! , like `! verbosity low`. What follows the ! has to look like a command name, so code and pasted output reach the agent as they always did. A command inside a sentence goes to the agent.

`! help` lists the commands, and any of them takes --help.

verbosity

How much of a running turn the conversation shows.

Level	Shows
high	The agent's commentary, a card for each run of tool calls, and a closing line. The default.
medium	The same without the tool calls.
low	The answer alone. In Teams, also without the closing line saying what a turn cost.

`! verbosity` shows where the conversation stands, and `! verbosity default` follows the configured level again. It applies to the turn that's running, so you can quiet one mid-flight. slack.verbosity and teams.verbosity in the configuration set where every conversation starts. Slack always marks a thread as working, whatever the level.

model

Which model this conversation runs, and how hard it thinks.

! model opus              the model
! model terra high        the model and the effort
! model --effort high     the effort, leaving the model alone
! model                   where the conversation stands
! model default default   follow the configured model and effort again

Names go to the harness as you type them, in its own naming, so opus or gpt-5.1-codex-max means whatever it means there. Bishop only checks that it looks like a model name. A name the harness doesn't know does what a bad agent.model does: Codex fails the turn, and Claude says so in prose about a model and silently ignores an effort it doesn't recognize. `! model` is how you see what a conversation runs with, which is the only sign of a typo in the silent case.

It takes effect on the next turn, not the one running, and lasts for the life of the conversation.

stop

Stops the turn running in this conversation. The turn closes with a line saying how long it ran, and anything sent while it was running is answered next.