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Every placeholder frame in docs/ now shows a real capture of the current build: 20 screenshots plus two short looping clips (prompt editor, pane drag). The README and the docs home page link a one-minute tour covering agent status across repos, one agent driving another through the CLI, the prompt editor, diffs, pane dragging, and sessions surviving a quit.
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---
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title: "The sidebar"
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description: "Tabs grouped by repository, with branch, diff counts, and agent status on every row."
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---
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The left sidebar is tty7's tab bar, and it is the default because a vertical row
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has room for things a horizontal chip does not: the repository a tab belongs to,
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the branch it is on, how much has changed there, and what a coding agent in it
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is doing.
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<kbd>⌘ B</kbd> shows and hides it. Drag its right edge to resize.
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<Frame caption="Tabs grouped by repository, with agent avatars, status dots, branch, and +N −M">
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<img src="/images/sidebar.webp" alt="The tty7 tab sidebar" />
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</Frame>
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## Grouped by repository
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Rows sit under a header per git repository, with everything else collected in a
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trailing **Scratch** section. The grouping follows the tab's working directory,
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not its history — switching branches or `cd`-ing around inside a repository
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never moves a row out from under its header.
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**Settings → Window & Tabs → Sidebar grouping** switches between *By repo* (the
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default), *By repo or folder*, and *Flat*. The default collects every non-repo
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tab in Scratch; *By repo or folder* groups those tabs under their working
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directory instead — for agents running in plain folders — leaving Scratch to
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tabs whose shell has not reported a directory yet.
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## What a row tells you
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<CardGroup cols={2}>
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<Card title="Who is running there" icon="robot">
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A brand avatar when a coding agent is in the tab, plus a status dot —
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blue for working, amber for needs-your-input, green for done.
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</Card>
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<Card title="Where it is" icon="code-branch">
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The pane's git branch, refreshed on `cd` and whenever a command finishes.
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</Card>
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<Card title="What changed" icon="plus-minus">
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The working-tree diff as `+N −M`. Click the counts to open the
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[diff overlay](/git/diffs).
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</Card>
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<Card title="Whether you have looked" icon="circle-dot">
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An unread marker on tabs where a coding agent finished its turn while you
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were elsewhere. Agent tabs also carry *Mark as Unread* in the right-click
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menu, once there is a finished turn to mark.
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</Card>
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</CardGroup>
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If you would rather the counts not be clickable, turn off **Settings → Window &
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Tabs → Open diff preview from sidebar counts**. The branch and the numbers stay;
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they simply stop opening the overlay.
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## Rearranging
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Drag a row to reorder it within its group, or drag a whole group header to move
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the group. A row cannot be dragged into a different group: a tab's group comes
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from its working directory, so `cd` is what moves it.
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Drag a row out over the panes instead and it stops being a session of its own:
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it lands as a pane of the tab on screen, wherever the highlight says. Dragging a
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pane the other way — by its grip, onto the sidebar — gives it a row of its own,
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between whichever two the caret lands between. See
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[making one tab a pane of another](/window/tabs-and-splits#making-one-tab-a-pane-of-another).
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## Naming
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Almost no tab has a name of its own, so the sidebar falls back:
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1. a name you set (right-click → **Rename Tab…**)
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2. the title the shell is reporting — the running command, usually
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3. **Shell 3**, numbered by position, when there is no title at all
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`tty7 tab ls` answers the same question with more evidence, because a script has
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no screen to look at. Its `label` falls back through the name, then the coding
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agent running in the tab ("Claude Code"), then the last segment of the working
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directory, then the foreground process — while `name` stays literal, so a script
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can tell a real name from a stand-in.
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## The switcher
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<kbd>⌘ ⇧ O</kbd> opens the workspace switcher: every workspace on every machine
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you are connected to on the left, that workspace's tabs on the right. Type to
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filter both, <kbd>⇥</kbd> to cross into the tab column, <kbd>⏎</kbd> to open.
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From here you can also rename a workspace, open one in a new window, stop one,
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or connect to a machine you have a profile for.
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