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### Dispatch an agent from agent view ### Send or copy a session to the background ### Dispatch an agent from your shell ### From agent view ### From inside a session ### From your shell

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362362You can dispatch new background sessions from agent view, send or copy an existing interactive session to the background, or start one directly from the shell.
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364### From agent view
364<span id="from-agent-view" />
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366### Dispatch an agent from agent view
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366368Type a prompt in the input at the bottom of agent view and press `Enter` to start a new background session. The session is named automatically from the prompt; rename it later with `Ctrl+R`.
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368370The automatic name is a short label written by a [Haiku-class model](/docs/en/model-config). A name the session gets later also appears on its row, including the [generated title](/docs/en/sessions#name-your-sessions) the session gets when you [accept a plan](/docs/en/permission-modes#review-and-approve-a-plan) in that session.
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413415When agent view is grouped by directory, dispatching sends the prompt to the selected row's directory, so you can select a group and dispatch into it without retyping the path.
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415### From inside a session
417<span id="from-inside-a-session" />
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419### Send or copy a session to the background
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417421Two commands move work from the session you're in to the background: `/background` sends the current conversation there and frees your terminal, and `/fork` sends a copy while you keep working where you are.
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419423#### Send the session to the background
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470474Directories you added during the session with [`/add-dir`](/docs/en/permissions#additional-directories-grant-file-access-not-configuration) also carry through. Carrying `--allow-dangerously-skip-permissions` keeps `bypassPermissions` reachable in the backgrounded session, but it doesn't grant anything new: the mode still requires the one-time interactive acceptance described in [Permission mode, model, and effort](#permission-mode-model-and-effort).
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472### From your shell
476<span id="from-your-shell" />
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478### Dispatch an agent from your shell
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474480Pass `--bg` or its long form `--background` to start a session that goes straight to the background:
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