Feature request: a /chat mode for when you just want to talk

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 11, 2026 by dopawei Closed May 24, 2026

I use Claude Code as my main Claude interface for everything — not just coding. But the default personality is so tool-happy that it struggles with pure reasoning tasks.

Simple example: I gave it a logic puzzle about color blindness inheritance. In normal mode, it rushed to a shallow answer. After I added a custom /chat slash command that suppresses tool calls and lets it think in natural prose, the same model nailed it step by step.

It's not a model capability issue — it's the system prompt pushing "act first, think later."

I put together a tiny config-only solution (two markdown files, zero source changes): https://github.com/dopawei/claude-chat-mode

Would be great to see something like this built in. A lot of us live in Claude Code all day and don't want to context-switch to claude.ai just to have a real conversation.

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