Complete Keyboard Shortcuts Reference

Quay 2 is engineered for complete keyboard navigability. Inspired by tmux, all primary window, stage, and tool commands use the Ctrl+B prefix chord.

Quay 2 swallows the Ctrl+B prefix, as tmux does, so the focused terminal pane does not receive it. Pressing Ctrl+B in a Claude Code pane starts the chord and does not background the running task.

• Send a literal Ctrl+B: press Ctrl+B Ctrl+B. The focused pane gets one Ctrl+B, so Claude Code backgrounds its task, tmux or psmux running in the pane gets its prefix, and vim, emacs and readline get the Ctrl+B they expect.
• A key that is not a chord ends the prefix and goes to the terminal as typed. Shift and the other modifier keys do not end it, so Ctrl+B % and Ctrl+B " work.
• Text fields: in an input box, such as a modal's branch name field, Ctrl+B does not start a chord and keys are typed as usual. Ctrl+K works everywhere.

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Workspace & Terminal Switching

Shortcut	Action	Description
Ctrl+B N	New Terminal	Opens the terminal launcher dialog
Ctrl+B 1	Switch to Terminal 1	Directly activate terminal in slot 1
Ctrl+B 2	Switch to Terminal 2	Directly activate terminal in slot 2
Ctrl+B 3	Switch to Terminal 3	Directly activate terminal in slot 3
Ctrl+B 4	Switch to Terminal 4	Directly activate terminal in slot 4
Ctrl+B 5	Switch to Terminal 5	Directly activate terminal in slot 5
Ctrl+B 6	Switch to Terminal 6	Directly activate terminal in slot 6
Ctrl+B 7	Switch to Terminal 7	Directly activate terminal in slot 7
Ctrl+B 8	Switch to Terminal 8	Directly activate terminal in slot 8
Ctrl+B 9	Switch to Terminal 9	Directly activate terminal in slot 9
Alt+1 .. 9	Fast Jump	One-stroke switcher to terminals 1 through 9

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Tiling Stage & Splits

Shortcut	Action	Description
Ctrl+B %	Split Horizontal	Splits the active viewport side-by-side (50% / 50%)
Ctrl+B "	Split Vertical	Splits the active viewport top-and-bottom (50% / 50%)
Ctrl+B G	Quad Grid	Arranges 4 terminals into a 2x2 grid
Ctrl+B Z	Toggle Zoom	Maximizes active pane to full stage, or restores previous split
Ctrl+B O	Cycle Focus	Moves keyboard focus clockwise to next visible pane
Ctrl+B X	Unsplit	Collapses splits back to single active view
Ctrl+B S	Swarm Launcher	Opens 1-click multi-agent swarm preset modal

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Development Tools & Engineering Drawers

Shortcut	Action	Description
Ctrl+B W	Create Worktree	Opens Git Worktree branch creation dialog
Ctrl+B D	Diff Inspector	Opens the Visual Diff & File Changes drawer: a log of agents' Edit and Write tool calls
Ctrl+B I	GitHub Companion	Toggles GitHub Issues & PR triage drawer
Ctrl+B A	Pre-PR Audit	Runs the Pre-PR Audit Gate: scans changed file names and the git diff for secrets, key files and personal paths
Ctrl+B H	Session History	Opens Claude Code session history and auto-resumer
Ctrl+B T	Token Spend	Opens token meter and audio chime settings
Ctrl+B R	Archon & SDD	Opens Archon visual DAG, streaming logs, and spec inspector
Ctrl+B F	Machina	Opens native AI Software Factory cockpit
Ctrl+B P	Praxis Builder	Toggles the Praxis Builder, which lists the project's .praxis/ definitions and shows a graph read-only
Ctrl+B M	Mission Control	Opens Mission Control, where you send messages to agents on the A2A bus and read its message trail
Ctrl+K	Command Palette	Opens global command launcher and searchable palette
Esc	Dismiss / Close	Closes any open modal, dialog, or drawer

The Diff Inspector is not a branch diff. It lists the Edit and Write tool calls in the newest 500 or so events Quay has received from the event-bridge plugin since it started.