Long answer, that might help you elsewhere. If I want to know about something in SBT, I inspect it: > inspect console [info] Task: Unit [info] Description: [info] Starts the Scala interpreter with the project classes on the classpath. [info] Provided by: [info] {file:/home/dcs/github/anti-xml/}default-39679a/compile:console [info] Dependencies: [info] compile:compilers(for console) [info] compile: