# Keyboard shortcuts

Studio's keyboard shortcuts on macOS: the five you can change in Settings, the fixed menu shortcuts, and the keys in the composer and the question panel.

*Where in Studio: Studio → Settings → Shortcuts*

*Last updated: 2026-10-25*

Five shortcuts can be changed in **Settings → Shortcuts**. The menu shortcuts and the keys inside the composer are fixed. Keys are shown here in macOS notation: ⌘ Command, ⌥ Option, ⇧ Shift, ↩ Return, ⌫ Delete. The Shortcuts pane writes the same keys as **Cmd+S**.

## Shortcuts you can change

| Shortcut | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Save file** | ⇧⌘S | Save the active workspace file. |
| **Toggle left sidebar** | ⌘S | Show or hide sessions and settings navigation. |
| **Toggle right sidebar** | ⌘B | Show or hide changes for the current session. |
| **Toggle terminal** | ⌘J | Show or hide the terminal for the current session. |
| **New session** | ⌘N | Open a blank session canvas to start a new session. |

1. **Open the pane**

   Open **Settings → Shortcuts**.

2. **Record a new binding**

   Click a binding, then press the key combination you want. Press Escape to cancel. Changes apply immediately.

3. **Undo a change**

   Choose **Reset** on a row to bring back its default, or **Restore defaults** for all five.

Shortcuts must be unique. A combination another shortcut already uses is refused, and the pane names the shortcut that has it.

![Settings → Shortcuts listing Save file, Toggle left sidebar, Toggle right sidebar, Toggle terminal and New session with their key combinations.](https://kelrova.com/docs/img/studio-reference/shortcuts.png)

*Settings → Shortcuts with the five bindings you can change.*

## Fixed shortcuts

| Keys | What it does | Menu |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ⌘K | Open the folder picker to add a project. Press it again to close it. | |
| ⌘O | **Open Folder…**: the same picker as a new project. It leaves Settings, so the project you pick is what you see next. | **File** |
| ⌘, | **Settings…** | **Kelrova** |
| ⌘H | **Hide Kelrova** | **Kelrova** |
| ⌥⌘H | **Hide Others** | **Kelrova** |
| ⌘Q | **Quit Kelrova** | **Kelrova** |
| ⌘M | **Minimize** | **Window** |
| ⌘W | **Close Window** | **Window** |

**File → New Chat** uses the **New session** shortcut. The **View** menu switches the theme with **Appearance: System**, **Appearance: Light** and **Appearance: Dark**. The **Edit** menu holds **Undo**, **Redo**, **Cut**, **Copy**, **Paste** and **Select All** for the field you are typing in.

## In the composer

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| ↩ | Send the message. While the agent is working, ↩ with text steers the run, and ↩ in an empty composer stops it. |
| ⇧↩ | New line. |
| Tab or ↩ | Pick the highlighted entry in the @ mention list. |
| Escape | Close the @ mention list. |
| ⌘Z, ⇧⌘Z | Undo, redo. |
| ⌘A, ⌘C, ⌘X, ⌘V | Select all, copy, cut, paste. |
| ⌘← and ⌘→ | Start and end of the line. |
| ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ | Start and end of the message. |
| ⌥← and ⌥→ | Previous and next word. Add ⇧ to select. |
| ⌥⌫ | Delete the word before the cursor. |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete to the start of the line. |

In a chat with Orchestra on, stopping asks first, because it stops the whole orchestration, including its running subagents. See [Steer, interrupt and stop](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/steer).

## In the question panel

When an agent asks you a question, the panel takes the composer's place. See [Questions and suggested replies](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/questions).

| Keys | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| 1 to 9 | Pick that option, while the text field is empty or not focused. |
| ↩ | Go to the next question, or submit on the last one. |
| Escape | Go back one question, while the text field is empty or not focused. |

## Elsewhere

- In the commit message field, ⌘↩ commits. See [Changes, branches and pull requests](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/git).
- While you edit an Orchestra proposal, ⌘↩ finishes editing, like **Done**. See [Proposals you confirm](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats-together/proposals).
- Escape closes the agent drawer of an Orchestra run.

## On Linux

Ctrl takes the place of ⌘ for the five shortcuts you can change and for ⌘K. In the composer, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+C and the other editing keys work, Home and End move to the edges of the line, and word moves use Ctrl instead of ⌥. The other shortcuts in the fixed table are macOS only.

## Related

- [Settings map](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/reference/settings)
- [The composer](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/composer)
- [Steer, interrupt and stop](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/steer)
- [Questions and suggested replies](https://kelrova.com/docs/studio/chats/questions)