TUI panels

The Manage section of the TUI is eight full panels, and each one is driven almost entirely by single letter keys. There are no menus and no mouse. This page is the reference for what every key does in every panel.

Open the section with /manage, or jump straight to a panel with its slash command (/skills, /mcp, /tasks, /memory, /llm, /telegram, /import, /privacy). Tab and Shift+Tab cycle between panels.

Developer Preview

Atomic Agent is a Developer Preview. The keys below are real as of v0.2.1, 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, a modal, or a form — never the panel itself.
• r refreshes; a, where present, toggles auto-refresh.
• Panels keep the chat editor unfocused, which is why bare letters work as commands. Typing / anywhere opens the slash palette instead.

Case matters

Four bindings are shift-pairs where the two halves do very different things, and they sit next to each other on the same key:

Pair	Lowercase	Uppercase
r / R	Refresh the panel (Tasks, Telegram)	Run a task now (Tasks) · Refresh (Telegram)
t / T	Open the masked token prompt (Telegram)	Clear the stored token (Telegram)
o / O	Start owner pairing (Telegram)	Clear the stored owner (Telegram)
g / G	GGUF-only pull (LLM, local pane)	Cycle the GPU device preference (LLM)

Note that r and R are swapped between Tasks and Telegram: on Tasks, r refreshes and R runs; on Telegram, r restarts the bridge and R refreshes. 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)
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
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 models pane

The local pane has extra keys that only apply to catalog rows:

Key	Action
Enter	Do the next obvious thing for the row: pull it, pull a missing mmproj, make it active, or start the daemon
g	Pull the GGUF only, skipping the mmproj — a fast text-only smoke test
i	Open the row’s detail view
d	Delete the downloaded model — opens a confirm
G	Cycle the daemon’s GPU device preference
q or Esc	Close the detail view

Remove confirms take y to delete and n or Esc to cancel. The chat-model and embedding-model confirms are kept strictly separate, so a y meant for one can never delete the other.

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.

Telegram

Key	Action
Enter	Advance the connect flow by exactly one step
e	Enable or disable the Telegram channel
t	Open the masked token prompt
T	Clear the stored bot token
o	Start owner pairing
O	Clear the stored owner
r	Restart the bridge
R	Refresh the panel
a	Toggle the advanced view

T and O revoke immediately, with no confirmation

T wipes the stored bot token and O wipes the paired owner the moment you press them. Neither asks. Both sit one shift away from t (open the token prompt) and o (start pairing), which are the keys you actually reach for during setup — so a slipped shift during onboarding revokes what you just configured. Re-pairing is the only way back.

Token prompt

The token prompt is masked, and it is the only way the token is ever entered — it is never taken as a command argument, so it cannot land in your shell history.

Key	Action
Enter	Submit the token
Esc	Cancel
Backspace	Delete the last character

Every printable key types into the masked buffer.

Pairing

While pairing is running, Esc cancels it and no other key does anything. Once the result is shown, any key dismisses it.

Privacy

Key	Action
1–5	Jump the approval ladder straight to that level
Left / Right	Step the ladder one level down / up
a	Toggle anonymous analytics and error reporting
r	Refresh the persisted snapshot

Approval levels change on the keypress

There is no confirm on this panel. Pressing 5 sets the ladder to approve everything immediately and persists it to agent.approvalLevel — the agent will stop asking before shell commands, file writes, and process kills, in this session and every one after it. Pressing 1 puts it back. The digits are a direct jump, not a stepper, so a mistyped key is a multi-level move.

Every key is ignored while a write is in flight, so a double-press cannot stack two level changes.

You can also drive this from the editor: /privacy level 1..5, and /privacy approve on|off as aliases for levels 5 and 1. See Approvals for what each level covers.

Import

The Import panel migrates sessions and tasks from Hermes or OpenClaw. 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.

Where to go next

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