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+name: Commands the user might run
+description: Use when your reply contains a command, path, or snippet the user may need to run or copy.
+version: 1
+---
+
+**A fenced code block gets a copy button. Inline `backticks` do not.** So anything the user may actually
+run or paste goes in a fence — even a single short command. Left inline, they have to select it by hand,
+and on a phone that is worse than it sounds.
+
+Inline backticks are for *naming* things in prose: a flag, a file, a function, a value. If it is something
+to paste into a shell, fence it.
+
+Commands that run in sequence belong in one block, in order, so one copy takes all of them. Do not add a
+shell prompt (`$`) — it gets copied too, and then it does not run.