Magic Keywords

The magic keyword system that activates OMC execution modes and skills through natural language prompts.

What are Magic Keywords?

Magic keywords are a system that detects specific words or patterns in a user's natural language prompt and automatically activates OMC skills or execution modes.

Without a separate slash command, including a keyword in your prompt automatically activates the corresponding feature.

How keyword-detector Works

keyword-detector.mjs runs on the UserPromptSubmit event.

Receives the user prompt and sanitizes it
Removes code blocks, XML tags, URLs, and file paths to prevent false positives
Performs keyword pattern matching on the sanitized text
Injects the skill invocation instruction after conflict resolution

Safety Guards

Sanitization: Keywords inside code blocks, words in URLs, and file paths are ignored
Team worker protection: Disabled when the OMC_TEAM_WORKER environment variable is set (prevents infinite spawning)
Disable: DISABLE_OMC=1 or OMC_SKIP_HOOKS=keyword-detector

Keyword List

Execution Mode Keywords

Keywords that invoke a skill and create a state file.

Keyword	Skill	Description
`cancelomc`, `stopomc`	cancel	Cancels all active modes
`ralph`, `don't stop`, `must complete`, `until done`	ralph	Persistent execution until verification complete
`autopilot`, `auto pilot`, `auto-pilot`, `autonomous`, `build me`, `I want a`, `create/make me <noun>`, `handle it all`, `full auto`, `fullsend`, `end to end`, `e2e this`	autopilot	Fully autonomous execution
`ultrawork`, `ulw`, `uw`	ultrawork	Maximum parallel execution
`ccg`, `claude-codex-gemini`	ccg	Claude-Codex-Gemini tri-model orchestration
`ralplan`	ralplan	Consensus-based iterative planning
`deep interview`, `ouroboros`	deep-interview	Socratic deep interview

AI Slop Cleanup Keywords

Supports two types: explicit patterns and combination patterns.

Explicit patterns (activate on their own):

ai-slop, anti-slop, deslop, de-slop

Combination patterns (activate when action + smell are combined):

Action keywords	Smell keywords
`cleanup`, `refactor`, `simplify`, `dedupe`, `prune`	`slop`, `duplicate`, `duplication`, `dead code`, `unused code`, `over-abstraction`, `wrapper layers`, `needless abstractions`, `unnecessary abstractions`, `ai-generated`, `generated code`, `tech debt`, `boundary violations`

Example: "cleanup the duplicate code" → activates the ai-slop-cleaner skill

Agent Shortcut Keywords

Activates agents with natural language instead of slash commands.

Keyword	Effect	Behavior
`tdd`, `test first`, `red green`	TDD mode	Forces test-first writing
`code review`, `review code`	Code review mode	Runs comprehensive code review
`security review`, `review security`	Security review mode	Runs security-focused review

These keywords inject an inline mode message instead of invoking a skill.

Reasoning Enhancement Keywords

Keyword	Effect
`ultrathink`, `think hard`, `think deeply`	Activates extended reasoning mode
`deepsearch`, `search the codebase`, `find in codebase` (also: `search code`, `search files`, `search project`, `find in code`, `find in all files`)	Codebase-focused search mode
`deep-analyze`, `deepanalyze`	Deep analysis mode

Priority and Conflict Resolution

When multiple keywords are detected simultaneously, they are resolved in the following priority order:

cancel (highest priority, exclusive)
  → ralph
    → autopilot
      → ultrawork
        → ccg
          → ralplan
            → deep-interview
              → ai-slop-cleaner
                → tdd
                  → code-review
                    → security-review
                      → ultrathink
                        → deepsearch
                          → analyze

cancel is exclusive -- it ignores all other matches and only runs the cancel. Other keywords allow multiple matches and are processed in priority order.

Usage Examples

# In Claude Code:

# Autonomous execution
autopilot: implement user authentication with OAuth

# Parallel execution
ultrawork write all tests for this module

# Persistent execution
ralph refactor this authentication module

# TDD
tdd: implement password validation function

# Code review
code review the recent changes

# Cancel
stopomc

Team Keywords

team is not auto-detected. To prevent infinite spawning, it must be explicitly invoked with the /team slash command.

/oh-my-claudecode:team 3:executor "build a full-stack todo app"

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