Vim mode: no rebindable action for "jump to agents panel" (← is hardcoded)

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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 21, 2026

When the chat input is empty/cursor at position 0, the footer shows a hint ← for agents, which jumps focus from the chat input to the agents/fleet panel.

This shortcut is hardcoded to the literal left-arrow key and is not exposed as a named action in ~/.claude/keybindings.json. When vim mode is enabled (/vim), left-arrow in Normal mode is consumed by vim as a cursor-motion command instead, so there's no way to reach the agents panel via this shortcut while in vim Normal mode — and no way to rebind it to a different key.

Request: Expose this as a named, rebindable action (e.g. chat:focusAgents or footer:focusAgents) in the keybindings system, so vim-mode users can bind it to a key that doesn't collide with vim cursor motions (e.g. meta+left or a chord like ctrl+x ctrl+a).

Workaround today: switch to vim Insert mode, then press left-arrow.

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