Keybindings

Global#

Key	Action
Ctrl+C	Context-sensitive: copy the selection → clear the input draft → open the confirm-quit popup
Ctrl+X	Cut the selection
Ctrl+M	Open the command menu
Ctrl+R	Search your prompt history
Ctrl+T	Cycle the reasoning-effort variant (Ctrl+Shift+T too)
Ctrl+W	Toggle the sidebar
Ctrl+Shift+V	Paste an image off the system clipboard as an attachment (also Alt+Shift+V)

Tabs#

Key	Action
Alt+← / Alt+→	Previous / next tab, wrapping at the ends
Alt+1 … Alt+9	Jump to that position in the strip

Both are bound only while there is more than one tab, so a single-tab session keeps every chord the composer had before tabs existed — including

Alt+←/→, which then still move by word. See [Tabs](/docs/usage/tabs).

Editing#

Standard Emacs keys in the input box: Ctrl+B/F move by character, Alt+B/F by word, Ctrl+A/E go to line start/end, Ctrl+D/H/K/U delete or kill text. Shift+arrows/Home/End select text for copy/cut.

Up/Ctrl+P recalls previously sent prompts and stashed drafts (when the cursor is on the first row); Down/Ctrl+N walks back down.

Scrolling the chat#

Key	Action
Up/Down	Scroll one row (with a single-line input)
Ctrl+N/Ctrl+P	Scroll down / up
Ctrl+V	Half-page down (Emacs C-v)
Alt+V	Half-page up (Emacs M-v)
Wheel	Scroll three rows per tick

j/k no longer scroll the chat; they still work inside list popups (the scene, variant, theme and tree pickers, and the trust prompt).

During a reply#

• Esc Esc (twice, within half a second) interrupts a streaming reply.
• Ctrl+O expands or collapses the last tool call.
• Alt+↑ recalls prompts you "steered" while the agent was busy; add Shift to walk the stacked history.

When several tool calls from one message share the concurrency slots (see tool-concurrency), the ones whose turn has not come yet are shown queued: the block holds a still ◇ where a running one spins and its meta row reads Queued 4.5s, then swaps to the spinner and Elapsed … when it starts.

After a turn#

Every finished reply closes with a dimmed footer — the wall-clock time the turn took and the model code that served it, under the scene it ran under, e.g. Took 12.4s · anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5 (plan). The footer is stored with the session, so it is still there when you resume; a turn that knows only one of the two shows just that one, and imported or older turns may show none.

A turn’s end is also announced if you asked for it: Shuvarie sends a desktop notification through the terminal (OSC 9) by default, and can play a sound. So do the two prompts that park the turn on you — a permission ask and a question — which is the point of the notification when you have stepped away. See ui.notify.

Popups#

Popup	Keys
Permission ask	Enter/y/a allow, s allow for the session, d allow everything in the asked file’s directory for the session (path asks only), Esc/n deny
Question	↑/↓ move, ←/→/Tab switch question, Enter toggle an option, 1–9 pick one, Esc dismiss — mid-stream it also interrupts the turn
Todo list	↑/↓ or j/k move, Home/g and End/G jump to the ends, Esc/q close
Peak table	t switch the time columns between the schedule’s zone, UTC and local time, Esc/q close
Codemode overlay	↑/↓ (Ctrl+P/Ctrl+N) walk, Enter/Space change a switch, Esc close
Session picker	Type to filter titles (fuzzy, from the first keystroke), ↑/↓ (Ctrl+P/Ctrl+N) move, Enter resume, Ctrl+D delete then Ctrl+D again to confirm, Ctrl+O new session, Esc close
Attach finder	Type to filter files (fuzzy), ↑/↓ move, Enter/Tab attach, Ctrl+U clear the query, Ctrl+D change the directory searched, Esc/Ctrl+C close
Directory prompt	Edit the search root (~, relative or absolute), Tab complete the highlighted hint, ↑/↓ pick a hint, Enter search there, Esc back to the finder
Manage attachments	↑/↓ move, a or Ctrl+A add through the finder, Delete/Ctrl+X remove, Ctrl+↑/↓ (Alt+K/Alt+J) change the send order, Home/End jump, Enter/Esc/q close
Unstaged changes	s stage everything and send, c send anyway, Esc cancel and give the draft back
Invalid slash command	Enter send the held text anyway, Esc hand it back to the composer
Command menu	↑/↓ navigate, Enter run, Esc close
Slash-command menu	Tab complete, ↑/↓ select, Enter run, Esc dismiss
Image viewer	←/h and →/l step, Esc/q close

Mouse#

Drag with the left button to select text in the input or chat. Enable copy-on-select in the ui config to copy automatically. Clicking an attached image opens the viewer. Dropping a file onto the terminal pastes its path into the composer, which picks it up as an attachment. The footer row shows the keys that apply to whatever is on screen, and the sidebar and collapsed footer show the workspace’s current git branch (⎇ …), refreshed at the start of every turn.