The command palette

The command palette is a box over the window that does anything Claudette has a command for, when you type a few letters of it. It also jumps to a tab, opens a folder and goes to a Settings page.

Using it

Press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P.
Type a few letters of what you want. The box says Type a command, a tab, a folder or a setting.
Choose with Up and Down, and press Enter to run it. Double-clicking an entry runs it too.
Press Esc, click outside it, or press the shortcut again to close it without running anything.

While the palette is open, the window’s other shortcuts are left to it.

What it lists

Before you type, the list has five kinds of entry, in this order. The kind shows beside each entry: Command, Tab, Folder, Settings or Help.

Commands. Each shows its shortcut, so the palette teaches them.
Tabs, by name with their folder. Picking one selects it.
Folders: your favorites, then recent folders. Picking one opens a new tab there.
Settings pages. Picking one opens Settings there.
Help: User Guide opens this guide, Ask on Discord opens dotBunny’s Discord, where you can ask questions, and Report an issue opens a new issue on GitHub with the versions filled in, all in your browser. About Claudette opens its window. See Reporting an issue.

The commands

For the whole window:

New tab, Open from History…, Settings
Collapse the sidebar or Expand the sidebar
Zoom in, Zoom out, and Reset zoom while zoomed
Go to the next tab waiting for you, when another tab is waiting
Go to file…, which finds a file by its name in the project’s Files tab. See Finding a file by name.

While a project’s Files tab has the focus:

Save the file, while it has unsaved edits, and Save all files, while any file does
Close the file, Go to line… and Open the file in a window, while a file is showing (In a window of its own)
Preview the file, Edit and preview the file and Edit the file, the ones not showing, while a Markdown file is. See Markdown files.
Show only changed files (or Show every file in the explorer) and Hide the explorer (or Show the explorer)
Close this pane and Close the other panes, with tabs side by side
Close project files

For the selected tab:

Find in the conversation
Go to the first message and Go to the latest message, which jump through the conversation. See Finding your way.
Close this pane and Close the other panes, with tabs side by side
Show the thread with its sub-threads, on a thread or one of its sub-threads
Stop Claude, while Claude works
The project’s main action, named for it (such as Build), with the project’s name beside it
Stash the message, while something’s typed in the composer
Show changed files, Show the agent map, Show tasks, Show processes, Show MCP servers (when the session has some) and Show scratch pad
Open project files, which opens the project’s Files tab. See Opening project files.
Play tic-tac-toe with Claudette, Play Connect Four with Claudette, Play hangman with Claudette and Play Minesweeper with Claudette, unless the games are turned off. See Games with Claudette.
Tab settings…, Duplicate tab and Export conversation…
Collapse tab (or Expand tab), while the tab has rows under it. See Collapsing a tab.
New tab in a worktree, for a folder in a git repository
The thread commands that apply: Make this tab a thread, New sub-thread, New sub-thread in a worktree, Ask before sending to sub-threads (or Stop asking before sending to sub-threads), Stop being a thread, Assign to thread: and a thread’s name, Go to thread and Detach from thread
Restart Claude Code, when it has stopped
Close tab

Filtering

An entry matches when the letters you typed appear in its name in order, ignoring case. A match at the start of the name or of a word, or with the letters together, comes first. An entry also matches by its kind, so typing tab finds tabs, a little lower down.

Going to the next tab waiting for you

Ctrl/Cmd+J selects the next tab, in sidebar order after the selected one and going round, that’s waiting for you: a permission prompt, a question or a plan. Nothing happens when no other tab is waiting. The palette has the same command, Go to the next tab waiting for you, while one is.

Shortcuts

Shortcut	What it does
`Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P`	Open or close the palette
`Up` and `Down`	Choose an entry
`Enter`	Run the chosen entry
`Esc`	Close the palette
`Ctrl/Cmd+J`	Go to the next tab waiting for you