Task Detail Window

Click any task card to open its detail window - a modeless window you can drag, resize, snap, and tile over the board. Several can be open at once, so you can watch multiple agents side by side. It is the hub of a running task: the terminal, the diff review, the embedded browser, and the conversation history all meet here.

What’s in the Window

• The task’s display ID (e.g., #42) in the header - click to copy
• The priority badge next to the display ID
• Markdown-rendered descriptions with GFM support
• Edit controls for the title, description, priority, and labels
• Attachments of any file type (drag-and-drop or paste)
• Terminal output - the window takes ownership of the terminal session while open
• Session stats - usage, model info, and session status
• A Pause or resume button for the agent session - its ring doubles as a live activity indicator: a spinning emerald ring while the agent is thinking, a steady amber ring when it is idle or waiting on a permission prompt
• Shortcut buttons from your Command Shortcuts
• The conversation pill - the speech bubble opens the task’s newest session in the read-only conversation viewer (also in the kebab menu; muted until the task has session history)
• The kebab menu with move, archive, open folder, view PR, Update from base, Close browser while a page is loaded, delete, and the Commands popover

The header folds gracefully as the window narrows: pills that no longer fit collapse into the kebab menu, custom shortcuts folding first so they can never bury the built-in controls.

Session Ownership

While a window owns a session, the bottom terminal panel releases it; closing the window returns the session to the bottom panel and keeps the agent running. Close a window with Escape, Ctrl+Shift+W / Cmd+Shift+W, a middle-click on its title bar, by clicking empty space outside it, or by pausing the agent from the header button or its kebab twin, which takes the window away rather than leaving a Resume prompt to dismiss. The click-outside behavior is governed by the Close on Outside Click setting (Settings > Behavior; default: close the focused window, so repeated clicks close open windows in turn).

Window Controls and Shortcuts

Maximize the window with the header toggle, a double-click on its title bar, or Ctrl+Shift+M / Cmd+Shift+M, or snap it to a half or corner with Ctrl+Shift+Arrows / Cmd+Shift+Arrows (stateful snap - repeat presses walk between halves and corners). Maximized, it fills the area between the title bar and status bar so window controls and live stats stay reachable. Each window’s size, position, and snap state are remembered across restarts.

Window keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+M / Cmd+Shift+M maximize/restore, Ctrl+Shift+W / Cmd+Shift+W close, Ctrl+Shift+Arrows / Cmd+Shift+Arrows snap, Ctrl+Shift+B / Cmd+Shift+B toggle the Browser pane, Ctrl+Shift+G / Cmd+Shift+G toggle the Changes panel, Ctrl+Shift+K / Cmd+Shift+K toggle the Description peek panel. All are rebindable in Settings > Hotkeys - see Hotkeys. For the general float, tile, snap, and dock mechanics shared by every window, see Windows & Docking.

Side Panes

When the Browser, Changes, or Description pane is open next to the terminal, drag the vertical divider between them to adjust the split. The ratio is remembered per task and shared across those panes, so switching between them never moves the divider. Only one right-side pane is shown at a time, so opening one puts away whichever was showing. For the Browser pane that is a hide, not a close: its page stays loaded behind the terminal so an agent driving it is not interrupted - see Hiding Is Not Closing.

Changes Panel

The Changes panel is a built-in git diff viewer for the task, laid out as a resizable rail beside the diff. The rail lists every changed file with status icons and +/- counts; clicking one shows its diff in split or inline layout. A branch header reports the current branch and ahead/behind counts, a scope control switches between working, staged, and full-branch diffs, and per-file viewed marks plus keyboard navigation help you work through a large changeset. A collapsible History section at the bottom of the rail holds the branch’s commit graph with a pinned Uncommitted changes row; selecting a commit scopes the diff to just that commit. The panel refreshes live as the agent edits files.

Open it from the task context menu, from the kebab menu in the task detail window, or with Ctrl+Shift+G / Cmd+Shift+G. It stays open next to the terminal without flicker, and remembers your selected file and scroll position per task.

See Reviewing Changes for the full reference.

Browser Pane

The Browser pill opens the embedded browser next to the terminal - point it at your dev server, annotate a screenshot, or let the agent drive it over MCP.

The pill hides and shows; it never ends the page. A green dot on it means a page is loaded for this task, whether the pane is showing, hidden, or its window is closed. To end that page and free its memory, use Close browser in the pane’s toolbar or in the kebab menu.

Description Peek

Press Ctrl+Shift+K / Cmd+Shift+K, or use the kebab menu, to open the task’s description in a resizable side panel next to the terminal - handy for keeping the brief in view while the agent works. It shares the right-side slot with the Browser and Changes panes, so opening it closes whichever of those was showing.

Commands Popover

Commands, in the kebab menu, opens a searchable list of Claude Code commands and skills discovered from the task’s working directory; picking one submits it to the running session. The Command Terminal window carries the same Commands entry in its kebab, backed by the same list.

Next steps

Next: Windows & Docking - the float, tile, and snap mechanics every window shares.

See also:

• Creating Tasks - authoring the task the window hosts
• Reviewing Changes - the Changes panel in full
• Terminal & Activity Tab - the session view the window takes ownership of