New Session

Nexus/Ready when you are

Idle

workspace Filter sessions

Sessions

Archived

↵ open · × delete · ⌘K commands

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Next request

What the agent will receive on your first message. Drafts are excluded.

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What are we building?

Sessions keep running on the daemon while you switch between terminal and browser.

Message Nexus

Command palette

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Settings

Appearance Conversation detail Keyboard Workspace Providers Agents

Appearance

Appearance

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Conversation detail

How much tool activity the transcript shows. The most specific setting wins: session, then workspace, then browser.

In effect

Focused: Compact activity; groups finished tools.
Balanced Recommended: Summaries with details one click away.
Complete: Everything the session reports, expanded.

This session

Focused Balanced Complete

Workspace default

Focused Balanced Complete

Browser default

Focused Balanced Complete

Keyboard

The same keys as nexus chat. ⌘K also opens Commands.

Send message: ↵
New line: ⇧↵
Commands: CtrlP
New session: CtrlN
List sessions: CtrlO
Fork session: CtrlF
Root-agent picker: CtrlG
Cycle root agent: ⇧Tab
Toggle sessions sidebar: CtrlB
Toggle details sidebar: CtrlL
Settings: CtrlS
Inspect context: CtrlI
Reasoning effort: CtrlT
Toggle logs: CtrlE
Cancel the active turn: CtrlC
Reconnect: CtrlR
Close panel or dialog: Esc

Workspace

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Providers

Sign in to model providers. Credentials stay in the keychain of the machine running Nexus; restart the daemon after connecting (nexus daemon stop).

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Agents

The root agent every new session starts with. Written to [agent] name; a project setting overrides the global one.

Save to

Global · ~/.nexus Project · .agents

New sessions start with

Confirm worktree action

Details

Sub agent

Idle

Sub agent · read-only · Esc returns to the parent

Read-only · assembled request

Current context

Request structure in provider order: system prompt, tool definitions, then ordered messages. Drafts and provider-specific wire transformations are excluded; nothing is sent or persisted by this inspection.

First-run setup

Connect a provider

Nexus starts with the newest model of the first provider you connect. Change it any time with /model.