Keyboard Shortcuts

Press ? with an empty composer to open the shortcuts overlay.

Global

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Space	Open command palette
Ctrl+Alt+N	Open the attention bell’s conversation list
Ctrl+Alt+O	Show conversations open in this terminal window
Ctrl+Alt+Left / Ctrl+Alt+Right	Switch between open conversations
Ctrl+Alt+Enter	Start a conversation in the current project
Ctrl+Alt+W	Close the current view, or the selected conversation view in a picker
?	Toggle keyboard shortcuts overlay
Ctrl+L	Scroll to bottom (re-attach auto-scroll)
Ctrl+C	Cancel stream / clear input / quit (press twice)
Esc	Cancel stream (press twice) / close modal / clear selection
Ctrl+D	Delete character forward / quit when input is empty and idle
Ctrl+Home	Scroll to top
Ctrl+End	Scroll to bottom

Input editing

Shortcut	Action
Enter	Submit the composer, confirm a dialog, or insert a newline in a todo draft
Shift+Enter / Alt+Enter / Ctrl+J	Insert newline in the composer, goal, question answer or todo draft
Ctrl+A / Ctrl+E	Cursor to start / end of line
Ctrl+F / Ctrl+B	Cursor right / left
Ctrl+H / Backspace	Delete the previous character
Ctrl+W	Kill the previous whitespace-delimited word
Ctrl+K	Kill to this line’s end, or kill its newline when already at the end
Ctrl+U	Kill to this line’s beginning
Ctrl+Y	Yank the most recently killed text
Alt+Y	Replace the last yank with an older kill
Ctrl+T	Transpose characters at the cursor
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+_	Undo
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo
Ctrl+P / Ctrl+N	Recall previous / next composer history, or navigate picker results
Ctrl+S	Search forward while history search is open
Alt+B / Alt+F, Alt+Left / Alt+Right	Move backward / forward by word
Alt+Backspace / Alt+D	Kill the previous / next word, using alphanumeric word boundaries
Alt+< / Alt+>	Move to the beginning / end of the entire field
Up / Down	Navigate between input lines / history
PageUp / PageDown	Scroll chat up / down by 10 lines
Ctrl+R	Reverse search through input history

Editing keys work in the composer, reference input, picker filters, question answers, goals, todo drafts, history search and settings. Each field has its own undo history; killed text is shared between fields. Consecutive kills combine into one entry. Moving, typing, pasting or changing fields ends that sequence and stops Alt+Y from replacing unrelated text. Characters with combining marks and joined emoji move, delete and transpose together.

In conversation pickers, Ctrl+Alt+A archives/restores the selected conversation and Ctrl+Alt+P pins it. Closing a view keeps its draft and queued follow-ups for this TUI process and leaves daemon work running. Closing the last view exits the TUI. Tab opens global history from the open-view or notification picker; in history, it switches between current and archived conversations. In the thinking picker, Ctrl+Alt+P cycles variants. Plain Ctrl+A and Ctrl+P/N retain their editing/navigation meanings.

Chat

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+C	Copy selected text to clipboard
Ctrl+Alt+T	Toggle reasoning/thinking block expansion
Ctrl+O	Toggle bash output expansion
Ctrl+1	Toggle the sidebar Environment section (context files / MCP)
x	Cancel most recently started subagent (when input empty)
@	Open the reference picker for @-mentions (files, models, skills, subagents)

Mouse

Action	Effect
Scroll wheel	Scroll the chat, picker list or details under the pointer
Click scrollbar track	Page the corresponding view
Drag scrollbar thumb	Scroll the corresponding view
Click sidebar task, subagent or job	Open its details
Click + drag	Select text (when mouse capture is on)