---
type: concept
title: "Commandify Everything"
description: "Turning repeated agent workflows into reusable slash commands so complex processes run with a single invocation."
tags: [commands, reuse, automation]
videos: [my-complete-agentic-coding-workflow-to-build-anything-no-fluff-or-overengineering, full-guide-to-becoming-a-principled-agentic-engineer-build-anything-with-ai, the-5-techniques-separating-top-agentic-engineers-right-now, ive-used-claude-code-for-2000-hours-heres-how-i-build-anything-with-it, youre-hardly-using-what-claude-code-has-to-offer-its-insane, this-one-command-makes-coding-agents-find-all-their-mistakes-use-it-now, ai-fixes-my-code-better-than-me-now-heres-how, how-to-properly-use-claude-code-agent-teams-full-live-build, the-true-power-of-ai-coding-build-your-own-workflows-full-guide, github-is-the-future-of-ai-coding-heres-why, the-next-evolution-of-ai-coding-is-harnesses-heres-how-to-build-them, parallel-claude-code-git-worktrees-this-setup-will-change-how-you-ship, pydantic-ai-20-the-new-best-way-to-build-ai-agents-is-composing-capabilities, a-complete-guide-to-claude-code-here-are-all-the-best-strategies]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Commandify Everything

Commandify everything is Cole's rule for eliminating repeated manual prompting: "one of the big ones here is to commandify everything. If you do something more than twice... you should make it a command." The threshold is deliberately low and shows up across his videos, sometimes twice, sometimes three times, but the signal is the same: "anytime you send in a prompt to your coding agent more than twice, that should scream to you that it's an opportunity to turn it into a command or a reusable workflow." A command is just "a prompt that you're going to load into your coding agent when the time comes," so commandifying is nothing more than saving your best prompts as invocable, versioned artifacts.

The distinction between a command and a skill is who triggers it: "commands are things that you invoke yourself like `/commit`. And in skills, that's when an agent decides to read context." Commands take parameters, "you can also have parameters with these slash commands with arguments... this dollar sign arguments keyword", so a single `/analyze-performance <target>` invocation fills in whatever you pass after the space. And because a command is just markdown, it is portable across agents: "this is how you use commands for any coding agent that doesn't support them directly... because commands are just markdown, it can read that and then it's the same as if I just did slash plan with the right command." That portability is why the same reusable prompt can drive Claude, Codex, and Cursor identically, "they're all going to reference this specific prompt to go through the process."

The payoff compounds. Nearly any step is a candidate, "pretty much anything that you can possibly do as a part of your development workflow can be turned into a command because it'll save you thousands of keystrokes." You can chain create-plan and execute-plan commands into a full workflow, wrap an entire subagent team behind one command that just takes a plan path, write a meta-command that generates other commands like `validate.md`, and even run a codebase-wide mistake-finder on any project. The overarching principle: "we don't want to do manual prompting as much as possible, turn things into something in the AI layer that you can invoke." And once commandified, the workflow is shareable, "you can share these workflows with other people like I'm literally doing for you right now."

## Part of

- [The AI Layer](./the-ai-layer.md) - commands are one of the invocable artifacts that make up your AI layer.
- [Agentic Workflow Engineering](./agentic-workflow-engineering.md) - commandifying steps is how ad-hoc prompting becomes an engineered workflow.

## Implemented by

- [Slash Commands](./slash-commands.md) - the concrete mechanism: reusable, parameterized, markdown-defined prompts.
- [Skills](./skills.md) - the agent-invoked counterpart to a user-invoked command.
- [Prime Command](./prime-command.md) - a canonical example, a reusable command that loads codebase context.

## Related

- [Capabilities Over Tools](./capabilities-over-tools.md) - commands encode reusable capability, not tool-specific busywork.
- [Global Rules](./global-rules.md) - standing context that commands build on.
- [End-to-End Validation](./end-to-end-validation.md) - a prime target to commandify (e.g. a generated `validate.md`).
- [Contract-First](./contract-first.md) - plan and spec steps that become create-plan / execute-plan commands.
- [Git as Long-Term Memory](./git-as-long-term-memory.md) - documenting work (e.g. `/commit`) as a commandified step.
- [Agentic Coding](./agentic-coding.md) and [Agent Deployment](./agent-deployment.md) - workflows commands automate end to end.

## Tools

- [Claude Code](../entities/tools/claude-code.md) - native slash commands with `$ARGUMENTS` parameters and markdown definitions.
- [Archon](../entities/tools/archon.md) - "use Archon to build this feature" invokes a packaged workflow automatically.

## Sources

- [My COMPLETE Agentic Coding Workflow to Build Anything (No Fluff or Overengineering)](../sources/my-complete-agentic-coding-workflow-to-build-anything-no-fluff-or-overengineering.md) - "[0:12:44] one of the big ones here is to commandify everything. If you do something more than twice... you should make it a command."
- [The 5 Techniques Separating Top Agentic Engineers Right Now](../sources/the-5-techniques-separating-top-agentic-engineers-right-now.md) - "[0:07:41] anytime you send in a prompt to your coding agent more than twice, that should scream to you that it's an opportunity to turn it into a command or a reusable workflow"
- [FULL Guide to Becoming a Principled Agentic Engineer (Build Anything with AI)](../sources/full-guide-to-becoming-a-principled-agentic-engineer-build-anything-with-ai.md) - "[0:12:14] we don't want to do manual prompting as much as possible, turn things into something in the AI layer that you can invoke"
- [How to Properly Use Claude Code Agent Teams (FULL LIVE BUILD)](../sources/how-to-properly-use-claude-code-agent-teams-full-live-build.md) - "[0:18:43] this is how you use commands for any coding agent that doesn't support them directly... because commands are just markdown, it can read that"
- [A Complete Guide to Claude Code - Here are ALL the Best Strategies](../sources/a-complete-guide-to-claude-code-here-are-all-the-best-strategies.md) - "[0:13:37] you can also have parameters with these slash commands with arguments... this dollar sign arguments keyword"
- [AI Fixes My Code Better than Me Now?! (Here's How)](../sources/ai-fixes-my-code-better-than-me-now-heres-how.md) - "[0:01:49] what we have here is a meta command... it's called a meta command because it creates another command called validate.md"
- [GitHub is the Future of AI Coding (Here's Why)](../sources/github-is-the-future-of-ai-coding-heres-why.md) - "[0:08:24] if we're fixing with Claude, Codex, Cursor, it doesn't matter. They're all going to reference this specific prompt to go through the process"
- [You're Hardly Using What Claude Code Has to Offer, it's Insane](../sources/youre-hardly-using-what-claude-code-has-to-offer-its-insane.md) - "[0:05:24] what slashbatch does is this allows us to handle larger changes in parallel... it splits up the work and then dishes out different agents to handle it."
- [The True Power of AI Coding - Build Your OWN Workflows (Full Guide)](../sources/the-true-power-of-ai-coding-build-your-own-workflows-full-guide.md) - "[0:13:17] I've created yet another slash command for this part of the workflow. So I'm calling it create plan.md."
- [I've Used Claude Code for 2,000+ Hours - Here's How I Build Anything With It](../sources/ive-used-claude-code-for-2000-hours-heres-how-i-build-anything-with-it.md) - "[0:08:05] Here's what we built. Here's how we improve the AI layer."
