Keyboard shortcuts.

Command+/, or /help, shows the list in the app. Command is the ⌘ key and Option the ⌥ key. A few shortcuts use the Control key (⌃) instead of Command; they say so.

The window

• Command+N: a new session, or a new chat in Chat.
• Command+O: open a folder as a project.
• Command+K: search sessions and chats.
• Command+,: Settings.
• Command+B: show or hide the sidebar.
• Command+/: the list of shortcuts.
• Command+\: open a pane beside. Command+Shift+\: open a pane below.
• Command+1 to Command+9: go to a pane.
• Command+Option+←: go to Chat. Command+Option+→: go to Agent.
• Option+← and Option+→: back and forward.
• Command++, Command+−, Command+0: larger, smaller, as it was.
• Command+Q: quit Nilux. If sessions are still working, it asks first.
• Esc: close what is open, or stop what is running.

In the message box

• Enter: send. Shift+Enter: a new line.
• Esc: stop Nilux while it works.
• Shift+Tab: the next permission mode, in a session.
• ↑ and ↓ in an empty box: your earlier messages. Control+R: search them.
• /: commands and skills. Tab completes, Enter runs, Esc closes.
• Control+B: move a running command, MCP call or the agents to the background.

Approvals and questions

• 1, 2, 3, 4: the answers on an approval card, in order; each button shows its number.
• In Do it differently…: Enter sends, Shift+Enter starts a new line, Esc folds it away.
• Esc on an open plan folds it without answering.
• On a workflow's start card: Enter starts it, Esc cancels.

Agents

• Control+G: open the Agents panel, in a session.
• Control+X: stop the selected agent, in the panel or in its view.
• Esc: from an agent's view, back to the main conversation.

Lists and menus

• Search: ↑ and ↓ choose, Enter opens, Command+Enter opens side by side, Esc closes.
• A session's menu in the sidebar: P pins, R renames, D deletes.
• Rewind: ↑ and ↓ choose, Enter takes the point, then the choice.
• The commit message in Changes: Command+Enter commits.
• An agent you are editing in Settings: Command+S saves, Esc goes back to the list.