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Fleet/background-agent view keybindings made data-driven

Fleet view shortcuts for group view, external editor and pinning now resolve through named keybinding actions instead of fixed keys.

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Fleet view shortcuts for group view, external editor and pinning now resolve through named keybinding actions instead of fixed keys.

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.

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Names in the bundleagents:switchViewchat:externalEditoragents:togglePin
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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

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 agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up chat:externalEditor, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.

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