Panes
The full catalog of pane types and the shortcuts that spawn, move, select, and delete them.
A pane is a unit on the canvas. Every Claude session, terminal, browser, note, and title block is a pane. Each pane has a position, a size, a z-index, and an agent type that decides what runs inside it.
Pane catalog
The spawn menu groups every pane type Agent Grid can put on a canvas. The order below is also the source of truth for the Cmd1Ctrl1…Cmd0Ctrl0 shortcuts.
| # | Shortcut | Pane type | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cmd1Ctrl1 | Claude Code | A claude CLI session in a PTY-backed terminal. Master-capable by default. |
| 2 | Cmd2Ctrl2 | Codex | A codex CLI session in a PTY-backed terminal. |
| 3 | Cmd3Ctrl3 | Antigravity | An agy CLI session in a PTY-backed terminal. |
| 4 | Cmd4Ctrl4 | Terminal | A plain shell PTY, rendered with xterm.js. |
| 5 | Cmd5Ctrl5 | Code Editor | An embedded VS Code instance. |
| 6 | Cmd6Ctrl6 | Source Control | A Git pane for staging, diffing, and committing. Also reachable via CtrlShiftGCtrlShiftG. |
| 7 | Cmd7Ctrl7 | Browser | A Chromium browser pane with DevTools. |
| 8 | Cmd8Ctrl8 | Note | A markdown note with TipTap editing and Whisper dictation. |
| 9 | Cmd9Ctrl9 | Title | A decorative section header for grouping panes visually. |
| 0 | Cmd0Ctrl0 | Insert Media… | Opens an OS file picker that drops an image or video pane at the cursor. |
Insert Media is a router, not a pane type. It dispatches to an image pane or a video pane based on the file you pick — there is no media pane that lives on the canvas.
Two pane types — claude_worker and codex_worker — are internal. They aren't on the spawn menu because masters spawn them via MCP. See Agents and workers.
How panes get on the canvas
There are five ways a pane appears.
- The spawn menu at the cursor. Press CmdNCtrlN, or right-click empty canvas. Pick an item — or type to filter and press EnterEnter.
- Direct shortcuts. Cmd1Ctrl1 through Cmd9Ctrl9 and Cmd0Ctrl0 spawn a pane at the cursor, mirroring the spawn menu's order one-for-one. The menu doubles as the shortcut legend.
- CtrlShiftGCtrlShiftG spawns a Source Control pane directly, regardless of platform.
- Drag-and-drop a media file. Drop an image or video onto the canvas to drop a pane at the cursor — no menu needed.
- A master spawns a worker. When a Claude pane calls the
spawn_workerorspawn_roleMCP tool, the worker pane appears on the canvas. See Agents and workers.
Dragging a folder onto the canvas does not spawn a pane. It sets the space's project folder. See Spaces and project folders.
Moving panes
- Drag the pane's header to reposition it. Body content (terminal, browser, editor) keeps focus and input — only the header is the drag handle.
- Auto-organize re-flows the panes in the space into a tidy grid. See The canvas.
Selecting panes
- Click a pane to select it.
- CmdClickCtrlClick toggle-selects to add or remove panes from a multi-selection.
- EscEsc clears the selection and closes any open menu.
Deleting panes
With one or more panes selected:
- DeleteDelete
- CmdBackspaceCtrlBackspace
Deletion is per-space. Panes in other spaces are untouched.
Undo a close
Closed a pane by accident? CmdZCtrlZ brings it back, and CmdShiftZCtrlShiftZ redoes. Undo now covers terminal, Antigravity, and browser panes — along with notes, titles, source control, code, and media — and a Claude or Codex pane comes back with its session intact when it has a resumable one. Undoing a closed master pane restores it together with all of its workers in a single step.
Next
- Agents and workers — what runs inside a Claude or worker pane.
- The canvas — how to navigate around your panes.