The Canvas
The infinite, pan-and-zoom workspace where every Agent Grid pane lives.
The canvas is the infinite 2D surface each space draws onto. Panes — Claude sessions, terminals, browsers, notes — sit on it freely, and you fly between them by panning and zooming the camera.
Panning and zooming
The canvas behaves like a Figma board. The defaults are rebindable in Settings.
- Pan — hold SpaceSpace, then click and drag.
- Zoom under the cursor — CmdScrollCtrlScroll.
- Zoom in / out from the keyboard — Cmd=Ctrl= / Cmd-Ctrl-.
- Zoom to fit all panes — CmdShift2CtrlShift2.
When the cursor is inside a browser pane, the canvas does not zoom. CtrlScrollAltScroll is forwarded into the browser as pinch-zoom instead.
Spaces are tabs along the title bar
A space is a tab. Each space owns its own canvas, its own pane list, and its own project folder. The title bar at the top of the window lists every open space.
- New space — CmdTCtrlT.
- Switch space — click a tab.
- Close space — close the tab.
Only the active space's canvas listens for shortcuts. Background canvases for inactive spaces are paused — they will not intercept CmdNCtrlN, Cmd1Ctrl1, or any other binding while you're looking at a different tab.
See Spaces and project folders for how a space binds to a folder on disk.
Workspace explorer sidebar
The left-rail workspace explorer lists every pane in the current space so you can jump straight to it instead of hunting on the canvas.
- Toggle the sidebar — Cmd\Ctrl\.
- Search panes — CmdFCtrlF with the sidebar open. Search matches pane titles and metadata keywords, so you can find a pane by what's in it, not just what it's called.
- Quick filter — the Show active panes filter narrows the list to just the panes that are currently doing something.
Selecting a pane in the explorer pans the camera to it.
Minimap and the pane counter
A minimap in the corner shows the camera's location in the wider canvas, alongside a counter of how many panes live in the current space. Both update live as you pan, zoom, and spawn.
Auto-organize
The auto-organize action re-flows the panes in the active space into a tidy grid, preserving relative order and grouping master / worker relationships. Use it when a long orchestration session has scattered panes across the canvas and you want a clean view to navigate from.
Moving around: putting it together
A typical loop looks like:
- CmdTCtrlT to open a new space, drag a project folder onto it.
- Cmd1Ctrl1 to spawn a Claude pane at the cursor.
- Hold SpaceSpace and drag to move the camera.
- Cmd\Ctrl\ to pop the explorer and jump to a specific worker pane.
- CmdShift2CtrlShift2 to zoom out and see the whole grid.
For the full pane catalog and spawn shortcuts, see Panes.