Skip to main content
Panels are the sidebar navigators inside a Task. They help you find and organize agents, terminals, browsers, artifacts, git changes, pull requests, files, sharing, and comments. You can use panels one at a time, stack them together, or rearrange them around the sidebar as the Task changes. Two panels appear only when they have something to show:
  • Pull Requests appears once a pull request is found in the Task’s chats.
  • Comments appears when you start or open a comment on the active artifact, and stays while a commentable artifact is open.
The other panels are always in the rail unless you hide them. You can force either conditional panel to show from the rail’s right-click menu.

​
The Rail

The rail is the column of panel icons beside the sidebar.
  • Click an icon to open its panel. Click the icon of the panel that is already open to collapse the sidebar; the rail stays visible. Cmd + B / Ctrl + B does the same.
  • Drag the sidebar’s edge to resize it. Double-click the edge to reset its width. The width is shared by every Task.

​
Show And Hide Panels

Right-click the rail, on an icon or on empty space, to choose which panels it shows: The last visible panel can’t be hidden. Your choices apply to every Task. Settings → Layout → Sidebar → Panels offers the same checkboxes, plus buttons and menus to reorder and group panels. See Layout.

​
Panel Headers

Each panel has a header. In a combined group, click a header to collapse or expand that panel. Some headers also have actions:

​
Rearranging Panels

Panels can be reorganized from the sidebar. You can drag a panel to:
  • move it above another panel
  • move it below another panel
  • combine it with another panel group
Combining panels keeps both panels visible in the same sidebar area. By default, Agents and Artifacts are combined. Combine others when two views belong together for the work you are doing, such as Git Diff and File Tree. When multiple panels are combined, resize handles let you adjust how much vertical space each panel gets. Drag a panel by its rail icon or its header. A line shows where it will land.

​
Work Side By Side

Split the canvas into groups to keep agents, terminals, or artifacts visible side by side. Use the tab strip’s Split group right button, or Shift-click it to split down. See the split groups demo. You can also drag a tab. Drop it on the edge of a group to split that group, or in the middle of a group to move the tab into it. An outline shows where the tab will land.

​
Canvas Tab Menu

Right-click a tab in the canvas for:

​
Pane Opener

A blank tab, or an empty group, shows the pane opener. Press Cmd + T / Ctrl + T to open a blank tab in the active group. Type in the “Open into pane…” box, or pick a category: Press Esc or Back to leave a category.

​
Find In A Tile

Every tab has its own find bar. It works in chats, artifacts, files, diffs, terminals (including their scrollback), browser tabs running on this computer, and the agent office. Find isn’t available in a browser tab streamed from another machine, and while you control one, the find shortcut goes to the page.
  • Open it with Cmd + F on macOS, or Ctrl + Alt + F on Windows and Linux.
  • Type to search. Toggle Match case, and use Previous match and Next match, or Enter and Shift + Enter. Press Esc to close.
  • In an artifact you can edit, Cmd + Opt + F / Ctrl + Alt + F opens the bar with the Replace row expanded, with Replace current match and Replace all matches.

​
Window Split View

A header tab can hold two views side by side, for example two Tasks, or a Task and History. Task, draft, History, and Settings tabs can be split; the Home tab can’t. Right-click a header tab for: The last four items appear when you right-click a split, and in the menu at the front of each split tab. You can also drag one header tab onto the near half of another to pair them. The dragged tab lands on the side it came from. Dragging past the middle of the other tab reorders the tabs instead. An empty half reads Choose view in the tab strip. The half itself offers:
  • Open Tabs: pick another open tab.
  • Create: New Task.
  • History: search your Tasks and open one.
You can also drop a dragged tab onto an empty half. The divider between the halves can be dragged. Focus it and use ← / → to move it, or Home / End to jump to 15% / 85%. Double-click it to reset to 50%. Each half keeps at least 15% of the width.

​
Header Tabs

Right-click a Task’s header tab for more actions: Where a Task supports labels and groups, Labels, Task appearance, and Add to group replace Tab appearance and Add tab to group. A tab group shows as a chip in the header. Click the chip to collapse or expand the group. Right-click it to name the group (“Name this group”), change its color, or choose New tab in group, Close group, or Ungroup. When there are more tabs than fit, buttons at the ends of the strip list the hidden tabs, with a “Search hidden tabs…” box. Settings → Layout has Task tab layout (Scroll, the default, or Shrink to fit) and a Home tab switch, which is off by default. See Layout. For the command palette, Back and Forward, reopening tabs, and windows, see Search and navigation.

​
Start Page Panel

The start page, where you begin a new Task, has a panel on its right side for terminals and browser tabs outside any Task.
  • The New tab chooser offers Terminal (“Shell in the selected folder”) and Browser (“Signed-in browser on this device”).
  • With several folders attached, Create terminal in workspace asks which folder to use.
  • The panel can be maximized, restored, and collapsed.
  • Right-click a tab for Rename, Close, and Close All.

​
Drag And Drop Inside Panels

Some panels also support drag and drop for the items they contain. Common uses include:
  • moving artifacts in the artifact hierarchy
  • nesting an agent under another agent
  • keeping related follow-up work near the spec, ticket, story, or review it belongs to
Drag and drop changes organization. It does not turn an agent into an artifact, or an agent into a plain terminal. Agents and artifacts live in separate panels, so an agent cannot be dropped under an artifact.