CoCo CLI keyboard shortcuts¶

Master CoCo CLI with these keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation.

Input shortcuts¶

Shortcut	Action
Enter	Submit message
Ctrl-J	Insert newline (multiline input)
Ctrl/Cmd-V	Paste from clipboard
Ctrl-C	Cancel/interrupt (double-tap to exit)
Esc	Cancel the current action or dismiss the active overlay (context-dependent)
Ctrl-K	Kill line (delete from cursor to end of line)
Ctrl-Y	Yank (paste killed text)
Ctrl-A	Move to line start
Ctrl-E	Move to line end
Ctrl-B	Move cursor left
Ctrl-F	Move cursor right
Ctrl-D	Delete character under cursor

View shortcuts¶

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl-T	Open table viewer (cycle forward through cached SQL query results)
Ctrl-O	Cycle display mode: compact → expanded → transcript
Alt-T	Open or close the fullscreen todo viewer
Alt-G	Open fullscreen web search results view
Ctrl-S	Open or close the background agent (subagent) picker
Ctrl-B	If a bash tool call is running, move it to the background; otherwise go back one level
?	Toggle help overlay (only when the input line is empty)

Mode shortcuts¶

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl-P	Toggle plan mode
Ctrl-G	Toggle team mode
Shift-Tab	Cycle permission level (confirm actions ↔ bypass safeguards)

Plan mode (Ctrl-P) and team mode (Ctrl-G) are independent toggles. They are not steps in the Shift-Tab permission-level cycle.

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl-R	Open history search; press again for the next older match
Ctrl-S	While history search is open, go to the previous (newer) match
Ctrl-G	Cancel history search
Esc	Cancel history search
Up / Down	Navigate history (when at top/bottom of input)
Option-Up	Previous history entry
Option-Down	Next history entry

Ctrl-S and Ctrl-G are context-dependent: outside of history search, Ctrl-S opens the background agent picker and Ctrl-G toggles team mode.

Table viewer shortcuts¶

Additional shortcuts for the table viewer (Ctrl-T):

Shortcut	Action
Tab	Cycle to next table
Shift-Tab	Cycle to previous table
c	Copy query to clipboard

Auto-complete triggers¶

Typing one of the trigger characters below begins auto-completion for commands, file paths, skills, or Snowflake tables.

Trigger	Action
/	Slash command completion
@	File path completion
$	Skill completion
#	Snowflake table completion
Tab	Accept suggestion
Up / Down	Navigate suggestions

Display modes¶

Press Ctrl-O to cycle through Compact, Expanded, and Transcript display modes for tool execution details.

Compact mode (Default)

Minimal tool execution display
Shows summary of operations

Expanded mode

Full tool execution details
Complete input/output display

Transcript mode

Full scrollable conversation transcript

Quick reference card¶

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  CORTEX CODE SHORTCUTS                   │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  INPUT                  │  VIEW                          │
│  Enter      Submit      │  Ctrl-T    Table viewer        │
│  Ctrl-J     Newline     │  Ctrl-O    Cycle display mode   │
│  Ctrl-C     Cancel      │  Alt-T     Todo viewer          │
│  Ctrl-R     History     │  Alt-G     Web search results   │
│  Esc        Cancel      │  Ctrl-S    Subagent picker      │
│                         │  ?         Help overlay        │
├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│  NAVIGATION             │  AUTOCOMPLETE                  │
│  Up/k       Up          │  /         Commands            │
│  Down/j     Down        │  @         Files               │
│  g          Top         │  $         Skills              │
│  G          Bottom      │  #         Tables              │
│  q/Esc      Exit        │  Tab       Accept              │
├─────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┤
│  Shift-Tab  Cycle permission level (confirm ↔ bypass)     │
│  Ctrl-P     Toggle plan mode   Ctrl-G  Toggle team mode   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Tips¶

Use Ctrl-O often: Switch between compact, expanded, and transcript display modes based on what you need to see.
Master Ctrl-R: History search is powerful for repeating complex prompts.
Vim-style navigation: The h/j/k/l keys work everywhere for cursor movement.
Double-tap patterns: For example, Ctrl-C Ctrl-C exits.