Chat view

Chat view draws a Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity or Gemini CLI pane as a chat, the way a desktop chat app does. The CLI keeps running in the pane: switching between chat and terminal keeps the session and everything in it.

Turning it on#

• Click the speech bubble in the pane's title bar, choose View → Chat View, or press ⇧⌘J. Each switches only the pane in front.
• Settings → AI settings → How agents open picks the mode new agents start in (terminal or chat). You also pick it in onboarding. An agent started again in a pane, after the last one quit, opens in this mode.

The conversation#

• Replies are formatted, and code blocks, commands and file reads use the editor's syntax colors.
• Tool steps fold into cards that open downwards; to-do lists show as checklist rows.
• Approvals and questions with numbered options can be answered from the chat. When the agent shows its own menu or a setup screen, its terminal comes up until that is done.
• Select text across paragraphs and code and copy it with ⌘C. The bar over a selection (or a right-click) quotes it in a reply or starts a side chat with a question about it.
• Attach files with + or by dragging them in; they show as thumbnails and chips.
• Stop interrupts the running turn. A message the agent puts back after a stop returns to the composer.

The start screen#

A new session shows the agent and model, the folder (opens the files panel), the branch (opens Git), a few ways to begin that fill the composer without sending, and the agent's earlier sessions in this folder, picked up again with a click.