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Attachments and panes

Beside the conversation sits a row of panes you can open at any time — files, terminal, Git, browser and more. Each conversation has its own set.

A conversation with the built-in terminal open beside it, showing a commit graph and test output, A conversation with the built-in terminal open beside it, showing a commit graph and test output,

Drag files into the composer, paste them, or click +. Up to 8 at a time.

File What the model gets
Images The image itself (the model must accept images)
PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint The extracted text; a scanned document has no text, so only its name
Code and text The full contents
Video, audio, archives and so on Just the name and type

Screenshots: set a global shortcut under Settings → Screenshots. After a capture you can annotate it — arrows, boxes, text, pen, mosaic — or have it attached to the composer automatically.

Click a file in the Files pane and it opens in File contents:

  • Code and text in an editor with syntax highlighting; ⌘S saves, and one keystroke formats
  • Markdown rendered, with a switch back to the source
  • Images, video and audio
  • PDF and Word (.docx)
  • Spreadsheets (.xlsx, .xls, .ods) and SQLite databases, shown as tables
A Markdown file open in the File contents pane, rendered with its text and a sequence diagram A Markdown file open in the File contents pane, rendered with its text and a sequence diagram
Pane Shortcut For
Files ⌘P The project’s file tree
File contents ⌥⌘P Viewing and editing the current file
Terminal ⌃` A real terminal
Git ⌘⇧R Changes, commits, branches, history
Side chat ⌥⌘S A separate chat about this conversation that never writes into it
Sub-agents ⌥⌘A What each subagent is doing
Tasks ⌘J The plan, the run log, and services that are running
Trace ⌘L Exactly what this turn sent to the model
Browser ⌘T A built-in browser the agent can drive too
  • Move a pane by dragging the small bar at its top centre.
  • Maximize a pane to fill the conversation area; Esc restores it.
  • Pop out any pane except the browser into its own window.