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# Slomo CLI: replay — Interactive Event-by-Event Playback

> Step through any recorded session or issue event by event, jump to errors, search payloads, and inspect variable snapshots — all in the terminal.

`slomo replay` opens an interactive command loop that lets you step through a recorded execution one event at a time, jump directly to errors, and inspect captured state without leaving the terminal.

```
slomo replay [REF] [OPTIONS]
```

<ParamField path="REF" type="string">
  Issue id (`SM-xxxx`) or session id (prefix ok). Default: the latest session. An issue ref loads its latest incident's session.
</ParamField>

| Option    | Effect                                             |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| `--json`  | Print events as JSON instead of interactive replay |
| `--trace` | Print the whole timeline non-interactively         |

## Interactive commands

Replay is a command loop — type a command, press Enter. No alternate screen or raw keypress capture, so it works over SSH and in `tmux`.

| Command  | Action                                                 |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| `n` \[N] | next event (or N forward)                              |
| `p` \[N] | previous event (or N back)                             |
| `j N`    | jump to event N                                        |
| `t`      | jump to next error                                     |
| `/text`  | search forward                                         |
| `?text`  | search backward                                        |
| `i`      | inspect full payload of the current event              |
| `v`      | show the variable snapshot linked to the current event |
| `w`      | context window of surrounding events                   |
| `h`      | help                                                   |
| `q`      | quit                                                   |

## Non-interactive use

```bash theme={null}
slomo replay SM-8b6f710a --trace                 # full timeline to stdout
slomo replay a1b2c3 --json | jq '.type'          # machine-readable stream
```

## See also

* [Replay guide](/investigating/replay) — a worked crash investigation
* [`slomo timeline`](/reference/cli/timeline) — the non-interactive feed with live-tailing