Claude Code Adds Slash Commands and Skills for Parallel Work

Claude Code merges slash commands into Skills for seamless parallel AI assistance with Subagents. No migration needed—existing workflows stay intact while gaining powerful context management and flex

Claude Code is updating really fast—just now, slash commands have been officially merged into Skills.

The official announcement states that users don’t need to perform any migration operations, and existing workflows will remain completely unaffected.

After the merge, users can now use the familiar / slash command syntax to invoke any Skill. Correspondingly, all existing slash commands can now also be called by Claude Code as Skills.

In addition, this integration brings a seamless combination between Skills and Subagents.

In simple terms: slash commands have been absorbed into the more powerful Skills system.