Chat and terminal

Talk to any agent in a chat view, and switch to its terminal when you need it.

Every agent session has two faces: a chat and its terminal. Both show the same live session. Switch between them with the button in the chat’s toolbar, or press Option+G (Alt+G on Windows and Linux).

An agent chat with its reply, the message box, and the model pill

Send a message

Type in the message box and press Enter. Some handy extras:

Tab queues the message instead. It’s sent when the agent finishes its current work.
Paste an image, or click the paperclip to attach files and folders.
Type @ to mention a file, / to see the agent’s commands, and $ to use a skill.
In Claude Code and Codex, start a message with ! to run a shell command, like ! git status.
Escape twice stops the agent (or once, if you turn off Press Escape twice to interrupt in Settings).
Ctrl+Enter stops the agent and sends your message at once (Interrupt & Send, also on Send’s right-click menu).
Ctrl+G (Ctrl+Shift+G on Windows and Linux) opens a bigger editor for long prompts.

When an agent asks you a question, it appears above the message box with its suggested answers. Pick one or write your own.

Messages that wait

A message you send while the agent is working waits under your last message with a play button: click it to interrupt the agent so it takes that message now. For Claude Code and Grok Build, the arrow next to it (Back to composer) takes the message out of the queue and puts it back in your message box, unsent. Up in an empty message box does the same for the newest waiting message.

Stash prompt, in the message box’s More actions (⋯) menu, puts what you’ve typed aside for later; with an empty box, it opens your stashed prompts.

Model and effort

The pill at the bottom left of the message box shows the agent, model and effort. Click it, or press Option+P (Alt+P on Windows and Linux), to switch models, effort, or account. A click changes this session and also becomes your default. A right-click changes only this session (Claude Code).

Reading the conversation

When an agent finishes a turn, its tool work folds into a Worked for line, so you see the answer first. Click it to expand.
Files the agent changed are grouped under N files changed. Click a file to open it.
Hover a message to copy it or save it as Markdown. On your own messages, Rewind to here lets you try again from that point.
Cmd+F searches the chat. Only what you can see is searched, so open a folded turn to search inside it.

Views of the chat

More actions > View in the message box has three switches:

Simple (on by default): hides tool command previews and groups file edits behind a count, for a calmer view.
Verbose: opens every tool call and “Worked for” log by default.
Summary: folds each turn down to your prompt and the agent’s reply. Option+Ctrl+S turns it on or off.

In Settings > General under Chat you’ll also find Default chat zoom (or Cmd+= and Cmd+- in a chat), Chat font family, Show file edit previews, and, with Show Advanced, Grey thinking, which shows the agent’s thinking in grey so it stands apart from its replies.

Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other right-to-left languages read right to left, in the message box and in the conversation.

Terminal

The terminal is a full Ghostty terminal. Use it for anything the chat doesn’t cover, like an agent’s own setup screens. Cmd-click (Ctrl-click) opens links, and pasting an image gives the agent a link to it.

There’s more: side questions, Catch me up, the files a session mentioned, and the pills above the message box. See More in the chat.