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title: "Slash Commands - Help Desk - mssgs"
description: "Type / for quick commands and fun emoticons - plus powerful bot triggers in communities."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/help/tools/slash-commands
language: en
---

# Slash Commands

Type / for quick commands and fun emoticons - plus powerful bot triggers in communities.

Two kinds of slash commands live in mssgs. On desktop, typing / in the input bar opens the quick-commands picker with the fun classics below. And in communities and bot DMs, / brings up triggers: custom commands that call a webhook.

## Quick commands (fun, desktop)

| Command | Result |
| --- | --- |
| /shrug | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
| /tableflip | (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ |
| /unflip | ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) |
| /lenny | ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |

## Triggers (powerful)

Communities can define their own slash commands - **triggers** - that call a webhook and post the result: think /standup , /deploy or /weather . Bot accounts can ship triggers too, which makes them available in your DM with that bot. Building triggers is covered in the [API documentation](https://mss.gs/en/docs).

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