Agent terminals
Open a terminal per worktree, and use Claude Code in the terminal or in a chat view.
Opening a terminal
Section titled “Opening a terminal”- Click a worktree card to open a terminal tab in that worktree’s folder.
Ctrl+Shift+T(macOS⌘⇧T) or New terminal in the command palette opens a terminal tab in the current pane.- Pick Terminal or Claude from the New tab menu in the tab bar.
A plain terminal tab starts a shell only. A Claude tab runs claude as soon as it opens. Tabs that had Claude Code running when you quit resume with claude --resume the next time you start the app. You can also reopen a past session from the session list on the worktree card.
Chat view in Claude tabs
Section titled “Chat view in Claude tabs”A Claude tab shows a chat view on top of the terminal. It opens in the chat view, and Ctrl+Shift+J (macOS ⌘⇧J) switches between chat and terminal.
- Press
Enterto send andShift+Enterfor a new line. Pasting an image attaches it. - Type
/to pick the clear, compact, init, review and help commands. - Permission requests show as cards with Allow and Deny.
- Stop (
Esc) stops the response.
The chat view needs the session status hook to be on (see Session status and notifications).
Terminal features
Section titled “Terminal features”- Open links:
Ctrl+click(macOS⌘+click) opens file paths and URLs printed in the terminal. Text files and PDFs in the project open as app tabs, at the line if a line number is given. AddShiftto open with the system default app. - Paste images: When the clipboard holds an image and no text, pasting saves it as a PNG under
belloga-clipboard/in the temp folder and pastes that path. Use it to hand screenshots to Claude Code. - Drop files: Drag a file or folder from the file tree onto the terminal to type its quoted path.
Copy, paste and line editing shortcuts are in Keyboard shortcuts.
Terminal settings
Section titled “Terminal settings”The Terminal tab of the settings sets the font, font size, line height, cursor style and blink, and WebGL rendering. Terminal colors follow the app theme (Dark, Light) picked in the Design tab of the settings.