diff --git a/src/cli/ui/slash/dispatch.ts b/src/cli/ui/slash/dispatch.ts
index 8b51c8d..67c9988 100644
--- a/src/cli/ui/slash/dispatch.ts
+++ b/src/cli/ui/slash/dispatch.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { handlers as sessionsHandlers } from "./handlers/sessions.js";
 import { handlers as skillHandlers } from "./handlers/skill.js";
 import { handlers as themeHandlers } from "./handlers/theme.js";
 import { handlers as webSearchEngineHandlers } from "./handlers/web-search-engine.js";
+import { nearestCommands } from "./nearest.js";
 import type { SlashContext, SlashResult } from "./types.js";
 
 /** Synchronous return — async work fires-and-forgets via `ctx.postInfo` to keep input non-blocking. */
@@ -50,5 +51,10 @@ export function handleSlash(
 ): SlashResult {
   const h = HANDLERS[resolveSlashAlias(cmd)];
   if (h) return h(args, loop, ctx);
+  const suggestions = nearestCommands(cmd, Object.keys(HANDLERS));
+  if (suggestions.length > 0) {
+    const list = suggestions.map((name) => `/${name}`).join(", ");
+    return { unknown: true, info: `unknown command: /${cmd} — did you mean ${list}?` };
+  }
   return { unknown: true, info: `unknown command: /${cmd}  (try /help)` };
 }
diff --git a/src/cli/ui/slash/nearest.ts b/src/cli/ui/slash/nearest.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec96f7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cli/ui/slash/nearest.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+export type NearestCommandOptions = {
+  max?: number;
+  maxDistance?: number;
+};
+
+export function nearestCommands(
+  input: string,
+  all: readonly string[],
+  opts: NearestCommandOptions = {},
+): string[] {
+  if (!input) return [];
+  const max = opts.max ?? 3;
+  const maxDistance = Math.min(opts.maxDistance ?? 3, Math.floor(input.length / 2));
+  if (max <= 0 || maxDistance <= 0) return [];
+  return all
+    .map((name) => ({ name, distance: levenshtein(input, name) }))
+    .filter((entry) => entry.distance <= maxDistance)
+    .sort((a, b) => a.distance - b.distance || a.name.localeCompare(b.name))
+    .slice(0, max)
+    .map((entry) => entry.name);
+}
+
+function levenshtein(a: string, b: string): number {
+  if (a === b) return 0;
+  if (!a) return b.length;
+  if (!b) return a.length;
+  let prev = Array.from({ length: b.length + 1 }, (_, i) => i);
+  let next = new Array<number>(b.length + 1).fill(0);
+  for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i += 1) {
+    next[0] = i + 1;
+    for (let j = 0; j < b.length; j += 1) {
+      const cost = a[i] === b[j] ? 0 : 1;
+      next[j + 1] = Math.min((next[j] ?? 0) + 1, (prev[j + 1] ?? 0) + 1, (prev[j] ?? 0) + cost);
+    }
+    [prev, next] = [next, prev];
+  }
+  return prev[b.length] ?? 0;
+}
diff --git a/tests/slash-nearest.test.ts b/tests/slash-nearest.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f80aa7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/slash-nearest.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { handleSlash } from "../src/cli/ui/slash/dispatch.js";
+import { nearestCommands } from "../src/cli/ui/slash/nearest.js";
+import { DeepSeekClient } from "../src/client.js";
+import { CacheFirstLoop } from "../src/loop.js";
+import { ImmutablePrefix } from "../src/memory/runtime.js";
+
+function makeLoop() {
+  const client = new DeepSeekClient({
+    apiKey: "sk-test",
+    fetch: (() => {
+      throw new Error("fetch should not run in slash-nearest tests");
+    }) as unknown as typeof fetch,
+  });
+  return new CacheFirstLoop({
+    client,
+    prefix: new ImmutablePrefix({ system: "s" }),
+  });
+}
+
+describe("nearestCommands", () => {
+  const commands = ["update", "sessions", "doctor", "models", "model"] as const;
+
+  it("sorts typo matches by distance", () => {
+    expect(nearestCommands("upadte", commands)).toEqual(["update"]);
+  });
+
+  it("handles missing, extra, and transposed letters", () => {
+    expect(nearestCommands("sesions", commands)).toContain("sessions");
+    expect(nearestCommands("docttor", commands)).toContain("doctor");
+    expect(nearestCommands("modle", commands)).toEqual(["model", "models"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns no matches when nothing is close enough", () => {
+    expect(nearestCommands("xyz123", commands)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(nearestCommands("x", commands)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("handleSlash unknown suggestions", () => {
+  it("adds a did-you-mean hint for close matches", () => {
+    const r = handleSlash("upadte", [], makeLoop());
+    expect(r.unknown).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.info).toBe("unknown command: /upadte — did you mean /update?");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the /help fallback when no command is close", () => {
+    const r = handleSlash("xyz123", [], makeLoop());
+    expect(r.unknown).toBe(true);
+    expect(r.info).toBe("unknown command: /xyz123  (try /help)");
+  });
+});