The review panel

The review panel on the right holds what you need besides the agent: its changes, GitHub, tasks, skills and plugins. Each is a screen with an F-key.

F1 Code changesWord-level diffs, the agent's notes, walkthroughs and questions on any line.

F2 GitHubCommit, push, pull requests, review comments, CI, your PRs and issues.

F3 TasksTasks lined up for the agent, sent when it is idle.

F4 SkillsThe skills nerdr gives the agents, and how often they use them.

F5 PluginsYour own scripts, and the screens they bring.

Opening and closing

While the panel is closed, its screens are a narrow column on the right, each F-key with a short name. Press an F-key or click one to open the panel on that screen, beside the agent. Click the open one again to close the panel. When the panel stays open, the column becomes a row of screen names along its top.

F1–F5 open and focus a screen; ctrl+q e 1…e 5 do the same, and m in the panel cycles the screens. esc, ctrl+q a a or a click gives the keyboard back to the agent. Press ? in the panel for all of its commands.

After ctrl+q	Action
e 1…e 5	Open code changes, GitHub, tasks, skills or plugins
z e	Show / hide the panel
z k	Small panel, which folds again when you go back to the agent / keep it open
z z	Make the panel full width
< / >	Widen / narrow the panel
z l	Choose a layout

F-keys in terminals and on Mac laptops

In a terminal pane at its prompt, F1–F5 still switch screens. A full-screen program there (htop, mc, vim) gets the function keys for itself: use ctrl+q e 1…e 5 then. F6 and up always go to the program.

A Mac laptop may need fn for the F-keys. Set function_keys = false to label the screens with their ctrl+q e shortcuts instead.

Small, open or full width

• Small: click » at the top of the panel, or press ctrl+q z k. The panel opens when you pick a screen and folds again when the keyboard goes back to the agent. Good for a quick look.
• Kept open: click «. The panel stays beside the agent, as wide as panel_width (50% by default). Drag the divider to resize it.
• Full width: ctrl+q z z, for reading a large change.

When the tab’s panes do not all fit beside an open panel, the panel turns small to make room, and opens again once they fit. Click « to keep it open anyway.

Layouts

ctrl+q z l lets you try the layouts: the arrows preview, enter saves and esc restores. Set layout to start in one:

layout	At start
normal	The agent, and the panel beside it
wide	The agent with three quarters of the window
small	The panel closed, folding again after a look
agent	The agent alone, the panel closed
panel	The panel full width

ctrl+q z = puts the agent left and the panel right at panel_width, ctrl+q z + gives the agent three quarters, and ctrl+q z a shows the agent alone.

Asking the agent from the panel

Requests from the panel go to the tab’s agent as messages, delivered when it is idle. Most open as drafts for you to read, edit and send.

Read drafts before sending. Review comments and CI logs contain text from others, which may include instructions meant for the agent, and the agent acts within its permissions.