/restart
A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
/update and /restart no longer mention artifact comment monitoring in their refusal messages
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.273.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names /restart.
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v2.1.288
A /restart command that keeps your session is built, behind a switch
A
/restartcommand, also/update, restarts Claude Code without losing the session and offers newer versions, behind a remote switchnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.288
Plugins can fetch a URL, and restarts must be typed as /restart
Plugins gain a way to fetch a URL, and Claude Code refuses to restart itself unless you type /restart
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.288
The
/restartcommand refuses remote and untyped requestsThe restart command now refuses when a non-owner calls it over Remote Control or when it was not typed at the prompt
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.288
Update notice can offer a restart, with its wording set remotely
The auto-update notice can now show restart wording such as "/restart to apply" or "Restart to update", fetched from a remote configuration
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.273
/update and /restart messages drop the artifact-comment-monitor special casing
/update and /restart no longer mention artifact comment monitoring in their refusal messages
found in this entry's text
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /restart was v2.1.288, 2 Oct 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.