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Overview

An alias is a nickname you assign to a command. Instead of typing the full thing every time, you define a shortcut once and confine expands it for you — optionally with parts of the command already filled in. They’re most useful for commands your staff run constantly with the same arguments. Rather than ,role @someone @Image Perms a dozen times a day, you set up ,pic @someone and be done with it.
Creating and managing aliases requires the Manage Server permission.

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Creating an alias

,alias create does the same thing if you prefer that wording.

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Rules for shortcuts

A few things confine won’t accept:

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Filling in arguments ahead of time

The real value of aliases comes from baking arguments in. Anything typed after the alias gets slotted into numbered placeholders — {0} for the first word, {1} for the second, and upward from there. Take a normal command:
Now wrap it in an alias that locks the duration in place:
Running ,shh @financely fires ,timeout @financely 10m. The member comes from your input, the ten minutes is fixed.
Numbering starts at zero, not one. {0} is always the first thing typed after your shortcut.

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Example: a one-word image permission command

Your moderators never have to remember the role name — they just tag someone.

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Deleting aliases

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One at a time

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Every alias pointing at one command

Handy when a single command has collected several shortcuts over time.

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Everything at once

,alias reset wipes every alias in the server. You’ll get a confirmation prompt with buttons first — it only listens to whoever ran the command, and times out after 30 seconds if left alone.

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Checking what’s configured

Forgot what a shortcut actually does? Check it directly.
Run ,alias list for a paginated view of every alias in the server alongside the command each one runs.