Keys for your answers

This page recommends multiple key mappings that you can customise as per your liking. Some of them override default tmux bindings. If you think there are better alternatives for recommended keys happy to understand how.

All the keys are the ones that are in docs/tmux.conf.full.example bindings. The “Help says” is what you get on CLI with --help flag. You can use it with “companion: …” in your bindings for easy search.

Key	Answers	Description
prefix g	Which pane had the output I was looking at?	runs: panes Every pane on the server, with what it runs and whether it has gone quiet; enter jumps there
prefix G	Where’s the agent working on X?	runs: panes --agents --agents: Only the panes running one of [agents] programs
prefix M-g	Which agents needs an answer from me?	runs: inbox The agents waiting on you, each with the question it asked; enter jumps there
prefix b	What’s today’s brief across projects?	runs: brief What needs you, on one screen: the agents waiting and what they asked, the health reasons, the sessions idle for days, the numbers
prefix J	What did I do in the project day before yesterday?	runs: journal What happened in each project: the commands that ran long, the questions the agents asked, the sessions opened and closed
prefix / *	Where did I saw “Hello World!”?	runs: search Every line of every pane’s scrollback in every active session, newest first; enter goes to the pane and the line
prefix P	What was that lsof command again?	runs: ports The ports something is listening on and the pane that started each; enter jumps there
M-s	Should I open a new window or session, technically its related to this project right?	runs: project Switch to a project, or start one
prefix c *	I don’t need session for this, I think a window is enough for now?	runs: new-window Open a new window, here or at any directory, from the directory picker
prefix @	Ah, Why didn’t I move this to separate session?	runs: promote Give a pane a session of its own, named for the directory it is in
prefix e	Can I quickly run a command while editing file with less keystrokes as possible?	runs: run Run a new or previous command from history in a pane beside this one
prefix ? *	What was that keymap again?	runs: keys Searchable key bindings
prefix C-c	So which keys I have not yet CRISPR in my DNA?	runs: cheatsheet A cheat sheet of the bindings you keep looking up, in four boxes
prefix z *	I have to focus here, how do I de clutter?	runs: zen Clear everything but the pane you are working in
prefix `	Do I have foldable pane?	runs: pocket A shell you pull out beside this pane and put away, process and scrollback kept, by the same key
prefix K	What’s the PID for this, how do I stop it right now?	runs: kill --ask Stop what runs in front in a pane: TERM, and KILL if it is still there after the grace
prefix X	Done for the day, can all panes and windows in session be closed gracefully without lingering swap files?	runs: project close Close this project by letting every window exit
prefix S	Can it remember layout and sizes of the project?	runs: project save Capture this session’s windows and panes as this project’s layout
prefix M-S	Will it can but can it forget it now?	runs: project forget Delete this project’s saved layout and fall back to the config
prefix M-s	Maybe I need to save all sessions before running this?	runs: sessions save Capture every session now, as a new generation
prefix Q	Can the AI keep it quiet for sometime?	runs: quiet Quiet hours: no notifications, no nudges and no agent count on the bar for a while; the health mark says quiet instead
copy mode o *	IDEs do it with easy but can my terminal do it better?	runs: open Open a URL or file found in text
copy mode y	pbcopy or xclip?	runs: clipboard Copy to the system clipboard, whatever this platform calls it
copy mode C-p C-n	Is there easy way to jump back terminal history?	runs: tmux’s previous-prompt next-prompt Needs shell-init in your shell: Print the shell code that emits the OSC 133 prompt marks
copy mode g *	I’m in copy mode, what can I do with this line?	runs: tmux’s display-menu A menu over open (o, O), open -i searches (s, S) and history top (g)
M-a	Can I hop between the editor and the agent without the prefix?	runs: toggle Move to the next window in this session, wrapping at the end
M-A	Which window was I just in?	runs: toggle --last Flip to the window this session was on before, tmux’s own last-window, instead of the next one by index
prefix C-t	Can this project look different from the others at a glance?	runs: theme pick Pick a theme and apply it
click on the bar	Can I just click the agent count instead of remembering a key?	runs: click What a mouse click on a segment of the bar does: bound to MouseDown1StatusRight with #{mouse_status_range}
prefix N	What was I doing in this pane again?	runs: note Leave a one-line note on a pane, shown by panes and in the pane border; with nothing to say it prints the note that is there
prefix C-r	Laptop rebooted, where did all my sessions go?	runs: sessions resurrect --merge Rebuild a server from a snapshot; --merge: Add the sessions that are missing instead of refusing a busy server
prefix C-i	Which sessions haven’t I touched in days?	runs: sessions idle Sessions nobody is attached to that have been quiet for days; picking one runs project close on it
prefix M-/	Is there a tmux key for that already?	runs: keys --all Show every binding, including the ones tmux ships

* replaces a tmux default:

• prefix /: describe a key (list-keys -1N)
• prefix c: new-window
• prefix ?: list-keys -N
• prefix z: zoom (resize-pane -Z)
• copy mode o: other-end of the selection
• copy mode g: history-top, which the menu’s own g still does