Keyboard shortcuts in the background-agent (fleet) view for switching group view, opening the external editor, and toggling a pin are no longer hardcoded to ctrl+s/ctrl+g/ctrl+t. They now resolve through a keybindings table lookup using named actions: agents:switchView, chat:externalEditor, and agents:togglePin.
Names in the bundleagents:switchViewchat:externalEditoragents:togglePin
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up agents:togglePin, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
| v2.1.257 | `Ctrl+S`, `Ctrl+T`, and `Ctrl+G` in agent view [follow your `keybindings.json`](#keyboard-shortcuts): `Ctrl+S` and `Ctrl+T` through the `Agents` context's `agents:switchView` and `agents:togglePin` actions, and `Ctrl+G` throug…agent-view see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up agents:switchView, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
| v2.1.257 | `Ctrl+S`, `Ctrl+T`, and `Ctrl+G` in agent view [follow your `keybindings.json`](#keyboard-shortcuts): `Ctrl+S` and `Ctrl+T` through the `Agents` context's `agents:switchView` and `agents:togglePin` actions, and `Ctrl+G` throug…agent-view see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up chat:externalEditor, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.
| `chat:externalEditor` | Ctrl+G, Ctrl+X Ctrl+E | Open in external editor. The [agent view dispatch input](/docs/en/agent-view#keyboard-shortcuts) follows this action's single-keystroke bindings too |keybindings see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up chat:externalEditor, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.