Finding your way around

This page covers the sidebar, moving through a long conversation, following an agent’s tasks and subagents, and the home page.

The sidebar

The sidebar lists your conversations under Projects, one folder per repository. Conversations without a repository are in the Start from scratch folder. Pinned sits above the projects when you have pinned conversations; a pinned conversation appears there and not in its project.

  • Add workspace (the folder-plus button) adds a repository to Projects before you have run anything in it. The list is the same as the composer’s repository picker.

  • View options sets Group by (Project or In one list) and Order by (Last updated or Manual). With Manual, drag a project or a conversation to a new place, or press Alt+↑ / Alt+↓ on a focused row. The order changes only how the list is shown.

  • A spinner marks a queued or running conversation, and a blue dot a result you have not opened yet. A conversation waiting for your answer or for a tool approval says so.

Your grouping, order, expanded projects and added workspaces are remembered for your account in this browser. So is which results you have read.

Getting started

Until you have a conversation, Getting started in the sidebar shows the next of three steps: Connect GitHub, Grant a repository and Run your first task. Skip hides it in this browser, and Show again in My Settings → Getting started brings it back.

Moving through a conversation

On a wide enough window with a mouse or trackpad, a rail of marks runs beside the chat, one mark per turn. Point at a mark, or focus it with Tab, to see that turn’s question and the start of the agent’s reply. Click it, or press Enter, to jump to the turn. The arrow keys move between marks, and Home and End go to the first and the last. On a narrow window or a touch screen, scroll the conversation as usual.

While the agent works, the chat follows new output. Once you scroll up, it stays where you are reading, and Back to bottom above the composer takes you back to the end and resumes following. A dot on the button means new output has arrived.

Tasks and subagents

When an agent keeps a task list or delegates work to subagents, the Tasks and subagents window shows them for the selected turn; the button in the task header reopens it after you close it.

  • Tasks shows the agent’s checklist with each item’s status.

  • Subagents shows each delegated agent’s assignment, model and latest state, and under Returned to the main agent, the reply the main agent received.

Choose a subagent in the window, or Switch to subagent › on the call that started it in the chat, to read its own conversation. From there, View trajectory › opens its steps in Trajectory, where Show steps from narrows the steps to one subagent or shows All agents. Which agents use subagents is listed in Agents and models.

The home page

The home page shows your avatar and up to three suggestions for writing clearer requests.

  • Avatar. Unless you upload a profile photo in My Settings, your avatar is a Pokémon companion that stays the same for your account. On the home page, its colors and badges show the kinds of work in your 50 most recent requests, such as frontend, testing or security. They are worked out each time you open the page: nothing is stored, and your memory settings do not affect them.

  • Suggestions point out what your recent requests tend to leave out, such as how to check that a change works, or the steps to reproduce a failure.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keys

What they do

⌘K / Ctrl+K

Search conversations

⌘J / Ctrl+J

Open or close the workspace pane

Enter / Shift+Enter

Send the message / add a new line

⌘Enter / Ctrl+Enter

Steer the running turn (Claude Code and Codex)

Escape

Stop the running turn, when the focus is not in a text field

Alt+↑ / Alt+↓

Move the focused sidebar row, in Manual order