Discord Slash Commands

PoracleNG can expose its user-facing commands as Discord slash commands (/track, /quest, /area, …) in parallel with the existing text-prefix surface (!track, !quest, !area, …). Slash is optional — the operator turns it on per server.

If your server has slash commands enabled, type / in any channel where the bot is present and Discord's UI will suggest the commands and their options.

Is It Enabled?

Type / in the Poracle DM (or any channel where the bot is allowed). If you see Poracle commands in Discord's autocomplete list, it's enabled. If you don't, ask your admin to add this to config.toml:

[discord.slash_commands]
enabled = true

Existing ! text commands keep working either way — slash is a parallel UI, not a replacement.

How Slash Differs From Text

	Text (!track)	Slash (/track)
Where you can use it	Channel or DM, both visible	Channel or DM — replies are ephemeral (only you see them, even in a channel)
Discoverability	Memorise the syntax / use !help	Discord's UI shows options + descriptions
Autocomplete	None	Pokemon names, forms, costumes, areas, templates, profiles, help topics all autocomplete
Admin overrides	user: / name: for managing other users	Not supported — slash always targets yourself
Filter syntax	iv:90-100 d:500 great:1-10	One option per filter (e.g. iv: 90-100, distance: 500, great_rank: 10)

Slash and text commands hit the same backend. A /track rule shows up in !tracked, can be removed with !untrack, and uses the same templates and areas as anything you set up with !track.

Available Commands

The full list of slash commands surfaced on this branch:

Group	Commands
Account / status	/version, /tracked, /help, /info, /language, /start, /stop
Tracking	/track, /raid, /egg, /quest, /invasion, /incident, /lure, /nest, /maxbattle, /gym, /fort, /untrack
Areas / locations / profiles	/area, /location, /profile
Schedules	/summary

Type / and start typing the command name; Discord will show you the available options as you go.

Sub-commands

A few commands group their sub-actions under one slash command:

• /area — add, remove, show, list, overview
• /location — add (name, place), list, show, remove, set-default (place), remove-default
• /profile — list, change, create, delete, settime (times), cleartime, copyto
• /info — pokemon, rarity, shiny, weather (other !info lookups such as templates, moves, items, costumes are text-only)
• /summary quest — show, settime, cleartime, now
• /untrack — one sub-command per type: pokemon, raid, egg, quest, invasion, lure, nest, gym, fort, maxbattle. Pick a rule from the tracking dropdown, or choose Remove ALL at the top of the list. (Incidents are removed with !incident remove … in text.)

For example, to save a named location, you'd run /location add and fill in the name and place fields in the option panel.

Tracking Options

Command	Options
/track	pokemon (required, or everything), iv (e.g. 100, 90-100), distance, great_rank, ultra_rank, little_rank, clean, edit (5.3+), template, form, costume, size, location, areas
/raid	boss, level, team, distance, clean, edit, template, form, costume, location, areas
/egg	level (required), team, distance, clean, edit, template, location, areas
/quest	pokemon, item, stardust, pokecoins, candy, mega_energy, min_amount, distance, clean, summary, template, location, areas
/invasion	grunt_type (required), gender, distance, clean, template, location, areas
/incident	type (required), distance, clean, template, location, areas
/lure	lure_type (required), distance, clean, edit, template, location, areas
/nest	pokemon (required), min_spawn_avg, distance, clean, template, location, areas
/maxbattle	level, pokemon, gmax, distance, clean, template, location, areas
/gym	team, slot_changes, battle_changes, distance, clean, template, location, areas
/fort	fort_type (required: Pokestop, Gym, Station or Everything), include_empty, distance, template, location, areas

5.3+

Before 5.3, /fort offered only Pokestop and Gym, and it also showed a clean option that made the command fail when set (fort rules have no clean). The clean option is gone.

Anything not listed (individual-stat ranges, CP, level, move:, gen:, PVP mega, rarity, ex, rsvp, …) is text-only.

Autocomplete

Several options have live autocomplete suggestions:

Option	Suggestions
Pokemon name (on /track, /quest, /raid, /nest, /maxbattle)	Matches against names in your language + English + dex ID
Area (on /area add, /area remove, and the areas option on tracking commands)	Areas your account is allowed to use. Pick several — each pick is added to a comma-separated list
Template (on /track template:… and others)	Templates currently loaded on this server (same as !info templates)
Profile (on /profile change, /profile delete, /profile copyto)	Your existing profiles, shown as name [#number]; picking one sends the profile number
Times (on /profile settime, /summary quest settime) (5.3+)	Ready-made time specs such as weekday07:30, weekend07:00-18:00 or 08:00-20:00/2, each with a short description. Type a day prefix (mon, w…) to narrow them, or a digit to complete a time; whatever you've typed is always offered first so you can keep a custom spec
Form / costume (on /track, /raid)	Forms/costumes for the chosen pokemon, with recently-seen ones listed first
Help topic (on /help)	Available help topics (admin topics hidden for non-admins)
Tracking rule (on /untrack …)	Your existing rules of that type, plus "Remove ALL"
Raid boss / quest reward (on /raid, /quest)	Things actually seen on the scanner in the last few hours — populated live from webhook traffic

Start typing in the option box — Discord will narrow the list as you type. The dropdown is capped at 25 suggestions; if what you want isn't shown, type more characters.

Worked Examples

Track a high-IV Pikachu nearby

Text:

!track pikachu iv:90-100 d:500

Slash: /track then fill in:

• pokemon: pikachu
• iv: 90-100
• distance: 500

Press Enter. Poracle replies ephemerally — only you see the confirmation.

Save a named location

Text:

!location add Home 10 Downing Street, London

Slash: /location add then fill in:

• name: Home
• place: 10 Downing Street, London

Set a quest summary schedule

Text:

!summary quest settime weekday07:30 weekend10:00

Slash: /summary quest settime then:

• times: weekday07:30,weekend10:00

The times option takes one or more specs separated by commas (or spaces), using the same time-spec grammar as the text command. Its autocomplete (5.3+) suggests one spec at a time, so it's most useful for a single spec; for several, type them out.

Limitations

• No user: / name: overrides. Slash always targets you personally — there's no admin-on-behalf-of-someone-else surface. Admins who need that keep using the text form.
• Replies are ephemeral. Used in a channel or a DM, the response is visible only to you. Slash invocations are recorded in the operator's DM log channel if one is configured.
• Same restrictions as text. disabled_commands and command_security apply to slash commands exactly as they do to ! commands, and you must be registered (except for /version).
• Discord caps options at 25 per command. Less-common text filters (moves, individual-stat ranges, CP/level, PVP mega, …) aren't surfaced as slash options — use the text form for those.
• Operator can restrict the surface. Admins can choose a subset via enable = [...] in [discord.slash_commands]. If a particular command isn't showing up, that's why.

Text-Only Commands

These remain text-only — they're either admin operations or don't fit the slash model:

!poracle, !poracle-test, !poracle-admin, !poracle-clean, !poracle-id, !poracle-emoji, !broadcast, !apply, !enable, !disable, !unregister, !channel, !webhook, !autocreate, !community, !role, !ask, !script, !userlist, !backup, !restore, !mute, !unmute.

Related

• Command Reference — the full text-command surface (slash uses the same filters under the hood).
• Registration — slash commands work the same way after registration as text does.