Command palette and sidebar

The command palette is the TUI's navigation hub. Its hierarchical menu provides session management, model switching, MCP configuration, permissions, and preferences without requiring you to memorize commands. The sidebar summarizes context usage, MCP status, and task progress while you work.

Command palette

Press Ctrl+P to open the menu. Boolean settings display an On/Off submenu, with ✓ marking the current value.

Use ↑ and ↓ to move through items, Enter to select, → to open a submenu, ← to return to the parent menu, and Esc to close the palette.

Menu structure

The top-level menu contains six sections:

Sessions    → New / Session list / Export
Models      → Model list (current model marked ✓) / Model info
MCP         → Global servers / Project servers / Enable or disable
Permissions → read / workspace / auto / yolo
Settings    → Language / Diagnostics / Experimental features
Layout      → Panel layout controls

Use Sessions to create, switch, or export sessions. Use Permissions to change the tool-call permission policy.

Configurable settings

Settings	Options	Description
Language	Chinese / English	Switch the interface language, it will take effect after restarting
Diagnostics	On / Off	Record ACP and CRP protocol traces
Subagents	On / Off	Enable subagents; off by default
TOON encoding	On / Off	Encode tool results in TOON format; off by default

Sidebar

Press Ctrl+B to show or hide the sidebar. It updates in real time and groups information into the following sections:

Information block	Display content
Session information	Title, summary (automatically generated), session ID
Working directory	Current session directory and the base path for file operations
Resource usage	Context-window utilization and prompt-cache hit rate; turns red near the limit
Run statistics	Elapsed time for the current and previous turns
MCP status	Server connection status and number of tools
Model information	Current model and provider