1) See what permission you have

< dunk> !perms
< gozerbot> USER .. ADMIN .. MAIL .. RSS .. EVAL .. VOTE .. FORGET .. ALIAS
          .. OPER .. QUOTE .. SENDRAW .. SAY

2) See what plugins are available

< dunk> !list
< gozerbot> loaded plugins: alarm alias all at autoreply autovoice away
            backup birthday botsnack chanperm choice code collective
            convert core count country debug dig dns event fleet gcollect
            googletalk grab greeting grep hello hg idle ignore infoitem
            install irc jabber job karma lag links lists log mail
            mailexceptions markov misc nickcapture nickserv not ops pgp
            popcon probe quote relay (+1)

if the response is longer than 375 characters the bot will cache the output and only show the first 375 chars. use !more to see the following lines.

< dunk> !more
< gozerbot> reload remind rest reverse rss search seen shop simplelog
            size snarf tail tcp tell timer to todo topic udp umode
            underauth update upgrade url user userstate webserver
            wikipedia

3) See what commands a plugin provides

An alias if it exists for a command is show in ()

<@dunk> !commands todo
< gozerbot> todo has the following commands: todo .. todo-chan (chantodo)
            .. todo-chandone (chandone) .. todo-done (done) .. todo-get
            .. todo-getprio (prio) .. todo-set .. todo-setprio (setprio)
            .. todo-settime .. todo-time (tt) .. todo-today (today) ..
            todo-tomorrow (tomorrow) .. todo-week

4) Get help on a plugin

The help command only shows the commands you can do in a plugin.

< dunk> !help collective
< gozerbot> plugin description: manage links to other bots .. to be
            accessible a bot needs to run the webserver
< gozerbot> commands: coll .. coll-exec

5) Get help on a command

< dunk> !help coll
< gozerbot> command description of coll: coll <cmnd> .. execute command in
            the collective .. alias: None .. examples: coll lq

6) Use apro to find commands

< dunk> !apro shop
< gozerbot> 1) shop 2) shop-del 3) shop-get 4) shop-add 5) shop-chan

7) Use pipelines

<@dunk> !apro todo | count
< gozerbot> 13