{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"effort-shortcuts-ctrlx-chords-added","canonical_anchor":"effort-shortcuts-ctrlx-chords-added","heading":"New ctrl+x shortcuts raise and lower effort","tier":"use","area":"Terminal UI","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/effort-shortcuts-ctrlx-chords-added","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### New `ctrl+x` shortcuts raise and lower effort\n\nEffort can now be raised or lowered with `ctrl+x` followed by `=` or `-`, as well as with `shift+up` and `shift+down`\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear whether these shortcuts are always present or only under some condition.\n\n**What**\n\nA keyboard shortcut can be a chord: you press `ctrl+x`, then a second key. The default shortcuts now include chords that change the effort level, alongside the existing `shift+up` and `shift+down`:\n\n- `ctrl+x =` and `ctrl+x ctrl+=` raise effort.\n\n- `ctrl+x -`, `ctrl+x ctrl+-` and `ctrl+x ctrl+_` lower effort.\n\n**Why**\n\nSome terminals capture `shift` with the arrow keys for their own use, so the old shortcuts never reach Claude Code. The new chords give you another way to change effort there.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}