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The Switcher & keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+Shift+K (⌘⇧K on macOS) opens the Switcher — a keyboard fuzzy-finder over everything you have open, across all projects:

  • Panes — jump straight to any terminal or agent.
  • Projects — switch project.
  • Worktrees — jump into a worktree (including Worktree View).
  • Views — Dashboard, Settings.

Matching favors what you meant: prefix and contiguous matches rank above scattered subsequences, and the active project is foregrounded. In the Pro edition the Switcher also carries action verbs (New pane here, New worktree, Reload pane, Toggle theme); the free Switcher is navigation-only.

The modifier is Ctrl on Windows/Linux and on macOS. App shortcuts deliberately use Shift or non-letter keys so they never collide with shell keybindings (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+R, … always reach your shell); on macOS, plain Ctrl combos always pass through to the terminal.

Press ? (outside a terminal) for the in-app cheatsheet — it’s generated from the same registry this table describes.

ShortcutAction
Mod+Shift+TNew pane in the active group
Mod+Shift+WClose the active pane
Mod+Shift+KOpen the Switcher
Mod+Tab / Mod+Shift+TabNext / previous pane
Mod+Shift+] / Mod+Shift+[Next / previous project
Mod+1Mod+9Switch to project 1–9
Mod+Shift+DToggle the dock (Scratchpad / Todos / Inventory)
Mod+Shift+RRestart the active pane (agents ask for confirmation)
Mod+,Settings
Mod+= / Mod+- / Mod+0Zoom in / out / reset
Mod+Shift+/Search the active pane’s scrollback
EscExit Worktree View
?Keyboard cheatsheet overlay

In-pane copy/paste on macOS: ⌘⇧C / ⌘V. Right-click pastes on all platforms. Ctrl+V with an image on the clipboard pastes a screenshot.