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38 pages under docs/, written against the source rather than the README: config keys and their clamps from core::config, default keybindings from ui::keymap, every CLI verb and flag from tty7-cli, agent aliases and hook/fork/resume support from core::cli_agent, and Settings paths taken from the actual en-US strings. docs/features.md and its zh-CN translation are retired — everything in them now lives in a page of its own, plus the two things they carried that nothing else did (IME input, the performance notes). README and README.zh-CN point at docs/ instead. Screenshots and videos are placeholders for now: docs/images/placeholder.svg with a caption naming what each shot should be. Co-authored-by: l0ng-ai <24760907+l0ng-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
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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="Placeholder — screenshot: the sidebar with two repo groups, agent avatars and status dots, branch and +N −M counts">
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<img src="/images/placeholder.svg" 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) and *Flat*.
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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 that produced output while you were elsewhere.
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*Mark as Unread* is in the right-click menu.
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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, or drag a whole group header to move the group.
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Dropping a row into another group moves the tab there.
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## Naming
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Almost no tab has a name of its own, so the label falls back through the best
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evidence available, in order:
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1. a name you set (right-click → **Rename Tab…**)
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2. the coding agent running in the tab — "Claude Code"
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3. the last segment of the working directory
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4. the foreground process
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That order is also what `tty7 tab ls` reports as `label`, with `name` left
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literal so a script 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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