TUI panels

The Manage section of the TUI is nine full panels, and each one is driven almost entirely by single letter keys. This page is the reference for what every key does in every panel, plus the composer controls that sit next to the chat editor.

Open the section with /manage, or jump straight to a panel with its slash command (/tasks, /skills, /memory, /mcp, /integrations, /swarm, /llm, /import, /privacy). /telegram opens the Integrations panel.

Tab / Shift+Tab (or Ctrl+B) step through every surface: chat, the Observe tabs, then the Manage tabs. In chat with the sidebar visible, Tab moves focus to the sidebar first; Ctrl+B always advances one step. Ctrl+G opens the menu, where each destination has a one-letter chord (for example Ctrl+G then y for Integrations, b for Swarm, l for LLM).

Developer Preview

Atomic Agent is a Developer Preview. The keys below are real as of v0.6.5, but bindings may shift between releases.

Conventions

A few things hold across every panel:

• j / k and Up / Down move the row cursor. They are interchangeable everywhere.
• Enter triggers the row’s primary action.
• Esc closes a detail view, modal, form or search first; pressed again (or with nothing open) it takes you back to the chat.
• r refreshes; a, where present, toggles auto-refresh.
• Panels keep the chat editor unfocused, which is why bare letters work as commands. Typing / opens the slash palette instead, except where a panel uses / for its own search (the Tasks list and the Skills hub).

Case matters

Two panels bind r and R to very different things, one shift apart:

Panel	r	R
Tasks	Refresh the list	Run the selected task now
LLM	Refresh providers and local models	Restart the local model server (reloads the model)

Check which panel you are in before you press.

Skills

The Skills panel lists what is installed and, through its built-in hub, browses and installs new skills from ClawHub and your configured GitHub taps.

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Open the skill’s detail view
e	Enable or disable the selected skill (writes skills.disabled)
i	Open the remote skill hub
d	Uninstall the selected skill — opens a confirm
f	Cycle the filter (all / enabled / disabled)
a	Toggle auto-refresh
r	Refresh the list

Detail

Key	Action
Esc	Close the detail view
e	Enable or disable the displayed skill
r	Refresh

Hub

i from the list opens the hub: a browsable catalog of remote skills with download counts for ClawHub entries.

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
/	Focus the search field
Enter	Open the selected skill’s pre-install card
r	Re-browse the catalog
Esc	Return to the installed list

While the search field is focused, every printable key types into the query, Enter runs the search, and Esc unfocuses without searching. Navigation hotkeys are swallowed so a stray j never jumps the list mid-query.

Pre-install card

The card shows the skill’s SKILL.md before anything is written to disk.

Key	Action
i, y, or Enter	Install the skill
n or Esc	Close the card, return to the hub
j / k, Up / Down	Scroll the body one line
PageUp / PageDown	Scroll the body one screen

Confirms

Both confirm modals take the same two answers, and both swallow every other key so a stray hotkey cannot act behind them.

Key	Action
y or Enter	Confirm
n or Esc	Cancel

The install confirm only appears when the scan flags the skill as risky — typically because it carries runnable scripts. Pressing y there is your acknowledgment of that risk, the same thing --acknowledge-risk does on the CLI. The uninstall confirm appears on every d and ignores input while the delete is in flight.

MCP

The MCP panel is a live view of your configured servers, and it edits them: n adds a server and d removes one.

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Open the server’s detail view
n	Open the add-server modal
d, Delete, or Backspace	Remove the selected server — opens a confirm
a	Toggle auto-refresh
r	Refresh

Detail

Key	Action
Esc	Close the detail view
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor within the sub-tab
1	Jump to the Tools sub-tab
2	Jump to the Resources sub-tab
3	Jump to the Prompts sub-tab
[ / ], Left / Right	Cycle sub-tabs
d	Remove this server — opens a confirm
r	Refresh

Add-server modal

The modal hands the keyboard to a text editor, so there are no letter hotkeys inside it. Paste one MCP server config as JSON — either a bare server object or the { "mcpServers": { ... } } envelope that Claude Desktop and Cursor use. A top-level command plus args, with no transport wrapper, is accepted too and promoted to stdio.

Key	Action
Enter	Submit the JSON
Esc	Cancel

Because paste delivers its whole payload before the next Enter is read, multi-line JSON pastes cleanly.

Remove confirm

Key	Action
y or Enter	Remove the server
n or Esc	Cancel

Keys are ignored while the removal is in flight, so a repeated y cannot queue a second write to config.json.

Tasks

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Open the task’s detail view
n	Open the create-task form
c	Cancel the selected task
R	Run the selected task now
/	Open the search field
f	Cycle the status filter
a	Toggle auto-refresh
r	Refresh
Esc	Clear an active search query

c skips the confirm for one-shot tasks

c only opens a confirm when the selected task is recurring. A non-recurring task is cancelled immediately, with no prompt — one keystroke, and it is gone.

While the search field is open, printable keys type into the query, Enter commits it and closes the caret, and Esc cancels and wipes the query. Every keypress is swallowed there, so list hotkeys never fire mid-search.

Detail

Key	Action
Esc	Close the detail view
o	Open the task’s session
R	Run the task now
c	Cancel the task (same no-confirm rule as the list)
r	Refresh

Create form

Navigation here deliberately uses Tab rather than arrows for field-to-field movement, and the arrows are reserved for the schedule-kind selector.

Key	Action
Tab / Shift+Tab	Move to the next / previous field
Enter	Move to the next field; submit when the cursor is on the submit row
Ctrl+Enter	Submit from anywhere in the form
Left / Right	Cycle the schedule kind (cron / interval / at) while that field is focused
Esc	Discard the form

Every other printable key types into the focused text field. The schedule preview revalidates as you type, so a bad cron expression shows up before you submit.

Cancel confirm

Key	Action
y	Cancel the task
n or Esc	Keep it

Memory

The Memory panel is read-only: it browses channels, follows links between notes, and expands a note’s graph neighbours. Nothing here writes.

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Open the row’s detail view. On a links row it jumps to the source note instead
1–6	Jump directly to that channel
[ / ]	Cycle to the previous / next channel
f	Cycle the archive filter (notes channel only)
a	Toggle auto-refresh
r	Refresh the current channel

The digits map onto the channel list in display order, so 1 is always the first channel available in your build, not a fixed name.

Detail

Key	Action
Esc	Close the detail view
g	Expand the note’s graph neighbours (notes channel only)
Enter	Follow the selected link to its neighbouring note (notes channel only)
r	Refresh

Enter walks the note’s outgoing links first, then its incoming ones, then anything g has already expanded — so pressing g before Enter widens what you can reach.

LLM

The LLM tab has four panes, not one: local, cloud, external, and fallback, in that left-to-right order. [ / ] and Left / Right switch between them, and the cursor position is remembered per pane.

Shared keys

These work in every pane.

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Trigger the row’s primary action
[ / ], Left / Right	Switch pane
f	Focus the inline model filter (switches to the Cloud pane first)
p	Cycle the Cloud model list’s price filter: all, free, paid (Cloud pane only)
n	Add a provider (switches to the Cloud pane first)
c	Configure the selected provider (switches to the Cloud pane first)
e	Activate the provider’s embedding model
E	Toggle the embedding master switch
s	Start or stop the managed daemon
R	Restart the local model server (reloads the model)
a	Add a model from Hugging Face that the catalog does not carry (switches to the Local pane first; on the Fallback pane a adds a link instead)
N	Reopen “tell me when it lands?” for a download in flight
B	Pull or update the llama.cpp backend
L	Jump to the LLM logs tab
r	Refresh providers and local models
/	Open the slash palette

While the inline model filter is focused, printable keys edit the query, Up / Down walk the filtered results, Enter selects, and Esc unfocuses while keeping the text.

Local pane

On the Local pane, Enter does the next obvious thing for the selected row, and the shared keys above cover the rest. In v0.6.5 some local-model actions have no key in the TUI. Use the CLI for them:

To	Run
Delete a downloaded model	atomic-agent models remove <id>
Pick the GPU for the managed daemon	atomic-agent models use-device <auto|cpu|device> (list devices with atomic-agent models devices)
Pull a model, with its vision projector	atomic-agent models pull <id> --mmproj
Stop a background download	atomic-agent models downloads cancel <id>

See CLI & TUI for the full models command.

Fallback pane

The fallback chain is editable from this pane, and that is worth pausing on: the chain decides where a prompt goes when the head provider fails. Reordering or adding a link can send your next prompt to a different vendor than you expect.

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
< / >	Move the selected link up / down in priority
a or Enter	Open the add-link picker
d	Remove the selected link
l	Toggle whether the local model is appended as the last resort

d removes a fallback link with no confirmation

There is no prompt. The link is gone on the keypress, and the chain reorders around it. Two links are protected and refuse removal: the active head, and the auto-appended local link (use l to turn that one off instead). Reordering with < / > is likewise immediate, and clamps at the ends.

In the add-link picker, j / k and Up / Down move, Enter adds the highlighted provider, and Esc cancels. Every other key is swallowed while the picker is open.

Integrations

The Integrations panel is the one place for third-party credentials and channels. It lists, in order: Composio, GitHub, Telegram, Discord and Atomic Mail. Each row shows its status; open one to see its fields and setup steps. Open the panel with /integrations (or /telegram).

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
Enter	Open the integration’s detail view
r	Refresh

Detail

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move between fields
e	Edit the selected text field. On an on/off field such as Channel, e toggles it
Enter	Toggle an on/off field such as Channel
d	Clear the selected field
Esc	Back to the list

Each integration also has its own verbs, shown in its detail view:

Integration	Keys
Telegram	p open the 60-second owner-pairing window · s restart the channel
Discord	s restart the channel
GitHub	v verify the token · i import the token from the gh CLI
Atomic Mail	r register an inbox · v resend the verification code · x forget the inbox

The Telegram setup flow is in the Telegram guide.

d clears a field with no confirmation

d wipes the highlighted value (a bot token, an owner, an API key) the moment you press it. Nothing asks first. Clearing a Telegram owner means pairing again.

Edit

Key	Action
Printable keys	Type into the field
Backspace	Delete the last character
Enter	Save
Esc	Cancel

While you edit, every key types into the field, so a pasted key full of letters never triggers a hotkey. The value is shown in plain text while you type and masked once saved, so avoid screen-sharing during setup. Saved secrets go to <stateDir>/.env.

Swarm

The Swarm panel lists every Telegram and Discord bot this agent runs, and lets you add more, each with its own token, owner and role. Open it with /swarm. The two primary bots (the Telegram and Discord rows from Integrations) appear here for the full picture but are read-only: edit, pair, restart or switch them in Integrations.

List

Key	Action
j / k, Up / Down	Move the cursor
a	Add a bot
e	Edit the selected bot
Enter or x	Switch the selected bot on or off
p	Pair an owner (Telegram bots; the bot must be on). Discord bots do not pair: set the owner id with e
s	Restart the selected bot
d	Remove the selected bot (opens a confirm)
r	Refresh

Add a bot

The add form walks through five steps: kind, label, role, token, owner.

Key	Action
Left / Right, Tab	Switch the kind between Telegram and Discord (kind step)
t / d	Pick Telegram / Discord (kind step)
Printable keys	Type into the current step
Backspace	Delete the last character
Enter	Next step; on the owner step, add the bot
Esc	Go back

Edit and remove

In the edit view, j / k move between the label, role, owner and token fields, Enter or e starts typing a new value, Enter saves it and Esc backs out. The remove confirm takes y; any other key cancels.

As in Integrations, a token is visible while you type it and masked once saved.

Privacy

Key	Action
a	Toggle anonymous analytics and error reporting
r	Refresh the persisted snapshot

Anonymous analytics are on by default. From the editor, /privacy analytics on|off|status (or /analytics on|off|status) does the same as a. You can also set "analytics": { "enabled": false } in config.json.

Approvals moved to the composer

The Privacy panel no longer sets the approval level: the 1 to 5 keys and /privacy level / /privacy approve were removed. There are now two separate controls:

• For this session: the coding-mode chip in the composer. /mode (or Ctrl+G then M) opens it: default, plan, auto and bypass permissions. It changes approvals for the current session only and never writes config.json. See Coding mode below.
• Persisted: agent.approvalLevel in config.json (1 to 5, default 1). The default coding mode follows this level.

See Approvals for what each level covers.

Import

The Import panel migrates from Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Pi or Oh-My-Pi, bringing whatever that source supports (see the Import guide). It runs in three stages: configure, preview, execute.

Configure form

Navigation uses Up / Down rather than Tab on purpose — the global Tab keeps cycling between panels, so the form never traps you.

Key	Action
Up / Down	Move between fields
Enter	Toggle the focused switch, flip the source, or start the dry run from the run row
Space, Left / Right	Flip the focused toggle or switch the source
Ctrl+Enter	Start the dry run from anywhere in the form
Backspace	Delete the last character in a text field

Letters type into the two text fields, source and limit. On toggle and source rows, stray letters are swallowed rather than typed.

Preview

The dry run reports what would be imported without writing anything.

Key	Action
y or Enter	Execute the import for real
n, e, or Esc	Discard and return to the form

While the import is running every key is swallowed. When it finishes, Enter or Esc resets the panel.

Composer controls

These controls live next to the chat editor rather than in a Manage panel. Each is a slash command, and several have a chip in the composer or a key.

Coding mode: /mode

/mode opens the coding-mode menu; /mode <name> sets one directly. Ctrl+G then M and clicking the chip open the same menu.

Mode	What it does
default	Approvals follow agent.approvalLevel from config
plan	The agent reads and proposes; every tool that would change something is refused
auto	File writes inside the working directory stop asking (level 2, or your configured level if it is higher)
bypass permissions	Nothing asks (level 5) for the rest of the session. Hardline shell-guard rules still block

The mode applies to the current session only. Switching back to default restores your configured level.

Where it runs: /runmode

/runmode opens the switch between local, cloud and fusion (Ctrl+G then 1, 2, 3 pick them from the menu). /runmode local|cloud|fusion sets one directly, /runmode status shows the current setup, /runmode swap trades the orchestrator and worker roles in Fusion, and /runmode workers N sets the Fusion worker count. The choice is saved to config.json.

Messages while a turn runs: /steer and /queue

When you press Enter while the agent is working, the message either steers the running turn (the default) or is queued to run after it.

• Ctrl+T flips between steer and queue. The choice is saved.
• /steer <message> sends one message into the running turn. Bare /steer makes Enter steer.
• /queue <message> parks one message for later. Bare /queue lists what is parked, /queue clear empties it, and /queue mode makes Enter queue.

A second window: /window

/window (or Ctrl+N) opens a new terminal window running Atomic Agent in the same working directory.

Other commands

• /sidebar hides or shows the session sidebar.
• /context shows where the session’s context window went.
• /mouse on|off|status toggles mouse support (off restores the terminal’s drag-to-select).
• /theme <name> or /theme list switches the UI theme.
• /onboarding runs first-time setup again, keeping your providers, keys, sessions and memory.
• /report files a GitHub issue with your logs attached; you choose what to include.
• /uninstall removes Atomic Agent and all of its data from this machine. It is permanent.

/help lists every slash command.

Where to go next

• CLI & TUI — the surrounding TUI: Run, Observe, sidebar, and global shortcuts.
• Telegram guide: setting up the Telegram channel from Integrations.
• Skills — what skills are and how installation works.
• Approvals — what each rung of the approval ladder allows.