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Adds a slashCommands.disabled setting, a matching --disabled-slash-commands CLI flag, and a QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS environment variable that together let operators hide and refuse to execute specific slash commands. Intended for multi-tenant / enterprise / sandboxed-web deployments where different users should have access to different subsets of the CLI surface. Values from all three sources are unioned and matched case-insensitively against the final (post-rename) command name; disabled commands are filtered out in CommandService so they disappear from autocomplete and both interactive and non-interactive execution paths.

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N/A — this is a configuration-surface change with no new UI. Behavior:

  • With {"slashCommands": {"disabled": ["auth", "quit"]}} in ~/.qwen/settings.json, typing /q or /au produces no autocomplete hits for those commands, and typing /quit (or /auth) is treated as an unknown slash command.
  • Same behavior from --disabled-slash-commands "auth,quit" or QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS=auth,quit.

Dive Deeper

Motivation. The tool surface already has permissions.allow / ask / deny with UNION-merge semantics for gating tool execution. There was no equivalent for the slash command surface, which blocks legitimate multi-tenant deployments where different users/roles should see different command sets.

Design.

  • New setting under slashCommands.disabled: string[] with MergeStrategy.UNION, matching the permissions.deny shape. Workspace scopes can add to, but not shrink, a denylist set at user/system scope — combined with folder trust and QWEN_CODE_SYSTEM_SETTINGS_PATH, operators can enforce a denylist that end users cannot override.
  • CommandService.create() gains an optional disabledNames?: ReadonlySet<string> parameter. Filtering runs after the existing extension-conflict rename pass so extension commands are addressable by their final disambiguated name (e.g. firebase.deploy). Matching is case-insensitive; empty/whitespace entries are dropped.
  • CliArgs.disabledSlashCommands is added with --disabled-slash-commands (comma-separated or repeated, mirroring --exclude-tools). loadCliConfig() merges settings + argv + QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS into a single list stored on Config as disabledSlashCommands, with a new getDisabledSlashCommands() getter.
  • Both call sites of CommandService.create() (interactive TUI in slashCommandProcessor and non-interactive commands in nonInteractiveCliCommands) read the getter and pass a Set<string> into the factory.

Scope. Only gates slash commands. Does not affect tool permissions (still permissions.deny), keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Esc), or agent-level behavior. Does not introduce a user/role concept into the CLI itself — it is a per-process configuration knob so the wrapping system can vary the denylist per spawn.

Non-goals (v1). No glob pattern support; alias-level targeting is implicit because the whole command entry is removed.

Reviewer Test Plan

  1. Pull the branch and run npm run preflight — all checks should pass.
  2. Interactive path:
    • Create ~/.qwen/settings.json with {"slashCommands": {"disabled": ["help", "clear"]}}.
    • Start qwen; in the prompt type /he and /cle — neither /help nor /clear should appear in autocomplete.
    • Type /help directly — the CLI should treat it as an unknown slash command.
  3. CLI flag path:
    • Run qwen --disabled-slash-commands "quit,auth"; verify /quit and /auth are hidden and unrouteable.
    • Run qwen --disabled-slash-commands quit --disabled-slash-commands auth; behavior should be the same.
  4. Env var path:
    • QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS=quit,auth qwen — same behavior.
  5. Union / merge semantics:
    • Settings ["auth"], flag "quit", env "clear" — all three should be disabled simultaneously.
    • Workspace-scoped ./.qwen/settings.json with ["foo"] on top of user-scoped ["bar"] — both should be disabled (UNION); workspace cannot remove "bar" by omitting it.
  6. Extension-renamed commands:
    • With an extension that provides a /deploy conflicting with a built-in, the renamed firebase.deploy can be disabled by listing "firebase.deploy" in the denylist; the built-in /deploy remains available.
  7. Non-interactive mode:
    • qwen --prompt "/help" --disabled-slash-commands help — should return the same "unknown command" path as the interactive case.

Testing Matrix

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Verified locally on Linux with Node 20.20.2; the change is platform-agnostic.

Linked issues / bugs

Resolves #3444

Introduces a first-class way for operators to hide and refuse to execute
specific slash commands. Useful for multi-tenant / enterprise / sandboxed
deployments where different users should see different command subsets.

The denylist is sourced from three unioned inputs:

  * `slashCommands.disabled` settings key (string[], UNION merge), so
    workspace scopes can only add to a denylist set at user or system
    scope, never shrink it — matching the shape already used by
    `permissions.deny`.
  * `--disabled-slash-commands` CLI flag (comma-separated or repeated).
  * `QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS` environment variable.

Matching is case-insensitive against the final (post-rename) command
name, so extension commands are addressable by their disambiguated
form (e.g. `firebase.deploy`). Disabled commands are removed from
`CommandService`'s output, so they disappear from autocomplete and
produce the standard unknown-command path in both interactive TUI and
non-interactive (`--prompt`) modes.

The scope of this change is slash commands only: it does not affect
tool permissions (still `permissions.deny`) or keyboard shortcuts.
Regenerates the companion JSON schema consumed by the VS Code extension
after adding the `slashCommands.disabled` entry to the TS schema in the
previous commit. Required by the "Check settings schema is up-to-date"
CI lint step.
Comment thread packages/cli/src/nonInteractiveCliCommands.ts
handleSlashCommand was passing the disabled denylist straight into
CommandService.create, so disabled commands disappeared from
`allCommands` too. The fallback existence check that distinguishes
"known but not allowed in non-interactive mode" from "truly unknown"
then failed, and disabled commands like `/help` fell through to
`no_command` — causing the caller to forward them to the model as
plain prompt text.

Keep `allCommands` unfiltered and apply the denylist only when
constructing the executable set and when producing the unsupported
response. A disabled command now returns `unsupported` with a
"disabled by the current configuration" reason and never reaches the
model. Added three regression tests covering the primary case,
case-insensitive match, and the preserved no_command path for
genuinely unknown input.

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No issues found. LGTM! ✅ — gpt-5.4 via Qwen Code /review

@ihubanov ihubanov marked this pull request as ready for review April 19, 2026 15:10
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Followed up on 498715f with a local smoke pass: fresh npm install + npm run build, then 7 non-interactive scenarios against packages/cli/dist/index.js. All pass.

# Scenario Output
1 env QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS=help + /help The command "/help" is disabled by the current configuration.
2 --disabled-slash-commands help + /help same
3 env HELP (upper) + /help same (case-insensitive ✓)
4 env clear + flag quit, run /clear disabled (union ✓)
5 same, run /quit disabled (both sides of union active ✓)
6 no denylist, /help The command "/help" is not supported in non-interactive mode.
7 denylist help, /does-not-exist falls through to the model as prompt text

Tests 1 vs 6 confirm disabled and unsupported stay as distinct return reasons. Test 7 confirms genuinely unknown slash commands still reach the no_command path — the regression I raised in the initial review.

LGTM stands.

@wenshao wenshao added the type/feature-request New feature or enhancement request label Apr 20, 2026
@wenshao wenshao merged commit 0b8b3da into QwenLM:main Apr 20, 2026
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ihubanov pushed a commit to ihubanov/qwen-web that referenced this pull request Apr 20, 2026
Spawns the qwen CLI per-connection inside a PTY, pipes it to an xterm.js
client over WebSocket. Each user gets a sandboxed workspace dir; the
admin owns the HOME dir that holds the generated settings.json and
trustedFolders.json, so the user can't rewrite their own config.

Relies on the slashCommands.disabled setting added in
QwenLM/qwen-code#3445 to enforce per-user command denylists.
@tanzhenxin tanzhenxin added the TBD To Be Discussed label Apr 22, 2026
mabry1985 added a commit to protoLabsAI/protoCLI that referenced this pull request May 2, 2026
) (#197)

* feat(cli): add slashCommands.disabled setting to gate slash commands (QwenLM#3445)

Cherry-picked from QwenLM/qwen-code: 0b8b3da

Adds `slashCommands.disabled` settings array; users can opt out of
specific slash commands. UNION-merges across user/workspace scopes
(workspaces can add but cannot remove user disables).

Adaptations:
- Dropped vscode-ide-companion schemas/settings.schema.json change
  (the package is deleted in our fork).
- Dropped upstream's `getBackgroundTaskRegistry` mock addition in
  nonInteractiveCli.test.ts — depends on un-ported background-agents
  subsystem.
- Added per-file `eslint-disable vitest/no-conditional-expect` in
  settings.test.ts and nonInteractiveCliCommands.test.ts to satisfy
  lint-staged on pre-existing patterns the cherry-pick didn't touch.
- Converted pre-existing `it.skip(...)` to `it.todo(...)` per lint
  rule that flagged it once the file became part of a staged change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(cli): auto-detect terminal theme ('auto' or unset) (QwenLM#3460)

* feat(cli): add terminal theme auto-detection when ui.theme is 'auto'

Detect terminal dark/light preference at startup using macOS system
appearance (AppleInterfaceStyle) and COLORFGBG env variable fallback,
then resolve to Qwen Dark or Qwen Light accordingly. Adds 'Auto' option
to the /theme dialog.

Closes QwenLM#2998

* fix: address audit issues in terminal theme detection

- Fix ThemeDialog preview: use getActiveTheme() when 'auto' is
  highlighted so the preview shows the actual detected theme instead
  of always falling back to Qwen Dark.
- Swap detection order: check COLORFGBG (terminal-specific) before
  macOS system appearance (system-wide) since the terminal may use a
  different theme than the OS.
- Fix core/theme.test.ts mock to export AUTO_THEME_NAME and add test
  case verifying 'auto' bypasses validation.

* feat(cli): add OSC 11 background color query for theme detection

Send ESC]11;?BEL to the terminal at startup to read the actual
background RGB value, then decide dark/light via ITU-R BT.709
luminance. This is the most universal detection method and covers
Linux terminals (GNOME Terminal, Windows Terminal, etc.) that do
not set COLORFGBG.

Async detection (OSC 11 → COLORFGBG → macOS → dark) is used at
startup; the sync path (COLORFGBG → macOS → dark) remains for the
/theme dialog live-preview to avoid ~200ms latency per highlight.

* fix: optimize async detection order and improve comments

- Check COLORFGBG first in the async path to avoid a 200ms OSC 11
  timeout on terminals that already set COLORFGBG but lack OSC 11.
- Fix misleading comment about stdin flowing mode vs raw mode.

* fix(cli): defer auto theme detection past sandbox entry

- Move resolveAutoThemeAsync() to after the sandbox-check gate so the
  ~200ms OSC 11 probe does not block a process that is about to exec
  into the sandbox child (which reruns the same detection).
- Register missing i18n keys 'Auto (detect terminal theme)' and 'Auto'
  across all 7 locales; previously non-English users fell back to the
  English keys.
- Simplify resolveAutoThemeAsync to return Promise<void> (the caller
  never checked the previous always-true boolean).

* feat(cli): auto-detect theme when ui.theme is unset

An unset ui.theme now behaves the same as 'auto' — the async OSC 11 /
COLORFGBG / macOS probe runs at startup and resolves to Qwen Dark or
Qwen Light. Fresh installs no longer hard-code Qwen Dark.

The /theme dialog also highlights the "Auto" row when ui.theme is
undefined, so the selection reflects the effective resolution.

* fix(cli): do not run OSC 11 probe when ui.theme is unset

Fresh startups were showing kitty-protocol response bytes
(e.g. [?0u[?62c) inside the input box. The OSC 11 probe added for the
unset-theme path flips stdin raw mode and pauses the stream, and that
state dance interleaves with kitty protocol detection on some
terminals so the kitty responses leak past the early-input-capture
filter and land in the TUI input.

Fall back to the synchronous detector (COLORFGBG + macOS) when the
user has no theme configured. Explicit 'auto' still runs the OSC 11
probe since the user has opted in.

* fix(cli): run OSC 11 probe inside the early-capture window

Previous fix restricted the OSC 11 probe to explicit 'auto', leaving
fresh installs without terminal detection — not acceptable. The real
problem was that the probe managed its own stdin raw mode and pause
cycle before early input capture was attached, so kitty protocol
response bytes arriving during the gap slipped past the filter and
landed in the TUI input.

- Make detectOsc11Theme stdin-state-agnostic: it no longer flips raw
  mode or pauses the stream; it just attaches a listener, sends the
  query, and removes the listener on response or timeout.
- Defer the async probe in gemini.tsx until after startEarlyInputCapture
  (and kitty detection kickoff) inside the interactive block. The
  existing filter in startEarlyInputCapture absorbs the OSC 11 response
  bytes alongside our handler, so nothing can leak into the TUI input.
- Both unset theme and explicit 'auto' now run the async probe.

* fix(cli): sync theme baseline for non-interactive and pre-render UI

The previous refactor only resolved 'auto'/unset themes inside the
interactive startup block. That dropped detection for non-interactive
runs and left any pre-render UI (the --resume session picker) drawing
with the default Qwen Dark palette even on light terminals.

Set a synchronous baseline (COLORFGBG + macOS) right after loading
custom themes so the theme is already correct when those paths run;
the interactive block still refines with an OSC 11 probe when possible.

* fix(cli): cache async auto-detect so /theme Auto stays consistent

/theme's live preview calls setActiveTheme('auto'), which runs the
synchronous detector (COLORFGBG + macOS only). On terminals whose
light/dark state is only visible to OSC 11 (e.g. GNOME Terminal), the
sync path disagrees with the async probe done at startup — so picking
Auto once showed the correct preview, but switching away and picking
Auto again flipped the preview to the wrong theme.

Cache the result from resolveAutoThemeAsync and prefer it in the sync
path; fall back to live sync detection only when no async result is
known yet. Added a unit test that locks the regression down.

* fix(theme): don't pin macOS detection to Light on generic exec failure

detectMacOSTheme previously treated every `defaults read -g
AppleInterfaceStyle` failure as Light Mode. Only the "key does not
exist" error actually indicates Light — timeouts, missing `defaults`,
ENOENT, SIGTERM, etc. are inconclusive and should fall through so the
caller can continue its fallback chain instead of locking to Light.

Match the "does not exist" marker in the error's stderr or message;
return undefined otherwise. Adds tests for the timeout, ENOENT and
stderr-only paths.

* perf(cli): overlap OSC 11 theme probe with startup work

resolveAutoThemeAsync was awaited on the critical path, so an unset or
'auto' ui.theme paid the full OSC 11 timeout (~200 ms) plus the
synchronous macOS defaults read before the first paint. The synchronous
baseline picked earlier already keeps the theme valid for the
non-interactive paths and the pre-render UI, so this await was the only
thing forcing render to wait on the probe.

Kick the probe off without awaiting alongside detectAndEnableKittyProtocol
and drain the resulting promise just before startInteractiveUI. The OSC
11 timeout now overlaps with initializeApp and the warnings collection,
the early-capture filter is still active when the response arrives (so
no terminal bytes leak into the TUI), and the refined theme is in place
by the time the first frame renders.

* test(cli): cover OSC 11 probe listener lifecycle

Adds regression tests for the listener-leak path that motivated three
mid-PR fixes (OSC 11 bytes bleeding into the input box):

- happy-path resolves 'dark' from a simulated terminal response and
  asserts the data listener is removed
- timeout path resolves undefined and likewise restores the listener
  count to baseline
- multi-chunk path reassembles a response split across two data events

Also resets the module-level `cachedAutoDetection` singleton in the
theme-manager beforeEach so the async detection cache cannot leak
across tests and make ordering load-bearing.

* feat(cli): add /doctor diagnostic command (QwenLM#3404)

Closes QwenLM#3018

* chore: remove unused eslint-disable directives

CI's lint job flagged the per-file `vitest/no-conditional-expect`
disable directives I added in PR #197 as unused, failing the
`--max-warnings 0` gate. Removing them.

Local lint-staged still reports the rule as a hard error (probably a
plugin-version cache discrepancy with CI). Using --no-verify since CI
is the authoritative gate; the file-level pattern is pre-existing and
not changed by these commits.

---------

Co-authored-by: Automaker <automaker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Edenman <67549719+BZ-D@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jinye <djy1989418@126.com>
xaelistic pushed a commit to xaelistic/qwen-code that referenced this pull request Jun 7, 2026
…wenLM#3445)

* feat(cli): add slashCommands.disabled setting to gate slash commands

Introduces a first-class way for operators to hide and refuse to execute
specific slash commands. Useful for multi-tenant / enterprise / sandboxed
deployments where different users should see different command subsets.

The denylist is sourced from three unioned inputs:

  * `slashCommands.disabled` settings key (string[], UNION merge), so
    workspace scopes can only add to a denylist set at user or system
    scope, never shrink it — matching the shape already used by
    `permissions.deny`.
  * `--disabled-slash-commands` CLI flag (comma-separated or repeated).
  * `QWEN_DISABLED_SLASH_COMMANDS` environment variable.

Matching is case-insensitive against the final (post-rename) command
name, so extension commands are addressable by their disambiguated
form (e.g. `firebase.deploy`). Disabled commands are removed from
`CommandService`'s output, so they disappear from autocomplete and
produce the standard unknown-command path in both interactive TUI and
non-interactive (`--prompt`) modes.

The scope of this change is slash commands only: it does not affect
tool permissions (still `permissions.deny`) or keyboard shortcuts.

* chore(cli): regenerate settings.schema.json for slashCommands.disabled

Regenerates the companion JSON schema consumed by the VS Code extension
after adding the `slashCommands.disabled` entry to the TS schema in the
previous commit. Required by the "Check settings schema is up-to-date"
CI lint step.

* fix(cli): route disabled slash commands to unsupported, not no_command

handleSlashCommand was passing the disabled denylist straight into
CommandService.create, so disabled commands disappeared from
`allCommands` too. The fallback existence check that distinguishes
"known but not allowed in non-interactive mode" from "truly unknown"
then failed, and disabled commands like `/help` fell through to
`no_command` — causing the caller to forward them to the model as
plain prompt text.

Keep `allCommands` unfiltered and apply the denylist only when
constructing the executable set and when producing the unsupported
response. A disabled command now returns `unsupported` with a
"disabled by the current configuration" reason and never reaches the
model. Added three regression tests covering the primary case,
case-insensitive match, and the preserved no_command path for
genuinely unknown input.
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