diff --git a/src/commands.lua b/src/commands.lua
index e492369..7a8b375 100644
--- a/src/commands.lua
+++ b/src/commands.lua
@@ -159,3 +159,166 @@ Handlers.attack = function(game, args)
   return false, "there is nothing to attack there"
 end
 
+Handlers.wait = function() return true, "you wait" end
+Handlers.z = Handlers.wait
+Handlers["."] = Handlers.wait
+
+Handlers.pickup = function(game)
+  game:pickupHere()
+  return true, nil
+end
+Handlers.g = Handlers.pickup
+
+-- Game:autoExplore already returns the exact (consumesTurn, message) shape
+-- every handler here does - it just may have spent several turns getting
+-- there instead of one, stopping itself the moment a hostile comes into
+-- sight or the player takes damage rather than walking on regardless.
+Handlers.explore = function(game)
+  return game:autoExplore()
+end
+
+-- Game:restUntilHealed shares the same shape and the same "may spend several
+-- turns before returning" behaviour as Game:autoExplore just above.
+Handlers.rest = function(game)
+  return game:restUntilHealed()
+end
+
+-- Game:travelTo shares that same "may spend several turns" shape too. "down"/
+-- "up" are the level's own stairs (self.level.downX/Y, upX/Y) - always a
+-- valid, already-walkable destination regardless of what the player has
+-- explored yet, exactly like choosePlayerAction's own goal-seeking already
+-- assumes; a raw x/y command is deliberately not offered since nothing in
+-- this interface ever shows the player a raw coordinate to aim one at.
+Handlers.travel = function(game, args)
+  if args[1] == "down" then return game:travelTo(game.level.downX, game.level.downY) end
+  if args[1] == "up" then return game:travelTo(game.level.upX, game.level.upY) end
+  return false, "travel where? down or up"
+end
+
+-- Every handler below that takes an inventory index shares the same shape:
+-- a missing or non-numeric first arg fails without spending a turn, exactly
+-- like an unknown verb, rather than crashing into the underlying Game
+-- method with a nil index.
+local function indexArg(args)
+  return tonumber(args[1])
+end
+
+Handlers.use = function(game, args)
+  local index = indexArg(args)
+  if not index then return false, "use what? give an inventory number" end
+  if game:useItem(index) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "you cannot use that"
+end
+Handlers.u = Handlers.use
+
+Handlers.drop = function(game, args)
+  local index = indexArg(args)
+  if not index then return false, "drop what? give an inventory number" end
+  if game:dropItem(index) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "you have nothing there to drop"
+end
+
+Handlers.sell = function(game, args)
+  local index = indexArg(args)
+  if not index then return false, "sell what? give an inventory number" end
+  if game:sellItem(index) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "that cannot be sold here"
+end
+
+-- Trailing target number is always the argument slot right after whatever
+-- an individual handler needed for itself (an inventory index, a spell/skill
+-- key) - see resolveTarget above for exactly what "explicit" changes.
+Handlers.throw = function(game, args)
+  local index = indexArg(args)
+  if not index then return false, "throw what? give an inventory number" end
+  local target, explicit = resolveTarget(game, args[2])
+  if not target then
+    if explicit then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+    return false, "there is nothing in sight to throw at"
+  end
+  if game:throwAt(index, target) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "you cannot throw that"
+end
+
+Handlers.capture = function(game, args)
+  local index = indexArg(args)
+  if not index then return false, "capture with what? give an inventory number" end
+  local target, explicit = resolveTarget(game, args[2])
+  if not target then
+    if explicit then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+    return false, "there is nothing in sight to capture"
+  end
+  if game:captureAt(index, target) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "the capture attempt fails"
+end
+
+Handlers.fire = function(game, args)
+  local target, explicit = resolveTarget(game, args[1])
+  if not target then
+    if explicit then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+    return false, "there is nothing in sight to fire at"
+  end
+  if game:fireAt(target) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "you cannot fire right now"
+end
+
+Handlers.cast = function(game, args)
+  local key = args[1]
+  if not key then return false, "cast what spell?" end
+  local def = Spells.catalog[key]
+  if not def then return false, "you know no spell by that name" end
+  local target = nil
+  if def.targeted then
+    local explicit
+    target, explicit = resolveTarget(game, args[2])
+    if not target then
+      if explicit then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+      return false, "there is nothing in sight to cast that at"
+    end
+  end
+  if game:castSpell(key, target) then return true, nil end
+  return false, "the spell fails"
+end
+
+-- multishot's two targets are named together or not at all: giving only one
+-- explicit number is ambiguous about which of the (up to) two shots it picks
+-- out, so that case falls back to the same auto-pick-both-nearest behaviour
+-- as giving none, rather than guessing which slot the player meant.
+Handlers.useskill = function(game, args)
+  local key = resolveSkillKey(args[1])
+  if not key then return false, "use which skill?" end
+  local success
+  if key == "cleave" then
+    local target, explicit = resolveTarget(game, args[2])
+    if not target and explicit then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+    success = game:useSkill(key, target)
+  elseif key == "multishot" then
+    if args[2] and args[3] then
+      local list = visibleHostilesInOrder(game)
+      local t1, t2 = list[tonumber(args[2]) or -1], list[tonumber(args[3]) or -1]
+      if not t1 or not t2 then return false, "no monster in sight at that number" end
+      success = game:useSkill(key, t1, t2)
+    else
+      local targets = nearestHostiles(game, 2)
+      success = game:useSkill(key, targets[1], targets[2])
+    end
+  else
+    success = game:useSkill(key)
+  end
+  if success then return true, nil end
+  return false, "that skill fails"
+end
+
+-- Zero-argument actions that always resolve against whatever stands on the
+-- player's own tile (a chest, a corpse, a captive, a node, a stairwell...),
+-- the same way every one of these Game methods already looks itself up by
+-- self.player.x/y rather than taking a target. `nothingMessage` only ever
+-- surfaces when the underlying method itself failed silently (no log line
+-- of its own) - most branches already explain themselves through game.log.
+local function hereHandler(methodName, nothingMessage)
+  return function(game)
+    if game[methodName](game) then return true, nil end
+    return false, nothingMessage
+  end
+end
+