Commands, help, and dispatch

Run help for the available catalog and help search TERM to find a command. Open a command entry to review syntax, examples, access, and its owning add-on.

Social Terminal normalizes input, validates arguments, checks visibility, dispatches the owning handler, supports cancellation, and prevents stale responses from overwriting newer results. Add-ons register commands; they do not replace the host.

Availability is actor-specific. Wallet, AI, search, gamification, community, shortcode, and blockchain commands appear only when the owning package, dependencies, and access policy succeed.

Members use stable, provider-neutral commands such as online, whois, spaces, and recent; normal help, errors, and frontend command data do not identify the community engine. Administrators can run community providers and provider-prefixed diagnostic commands when they need to inspect an integration. Those diagnostics require manage_options and are never part of the member command surface.

Community discovery commands online, whois, spaces, space, and recent are Free. Personalized and ranked insights myspaces, topspaces, and topusers require the active provider's Pro capability. Search, AI, MCP, and Gamification enforce their own product tiers against the shared provider contract instead of imposing a second adapter gate.

Hiding a command from help is not authorization. The server handler repeats capability and input checks for every dispatch.