[DOCS] Desktop: Ctrl+1–Ctrl+9 session switching is missing from the Code tab shortcut table

The Code tab has a direct-jump session shortcut that the documentation never mentions: Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9 switch to a session by its position in the sidebar.

It is clearly a deliberate feature rather than an accident — hold Ctrl and each eligible sidebar row displays the number assigned to it, so the app teaches the shortcut in the UI while the docs stay silent about it.

Where it is missing

The Desktop application page covers the neighboring behavior twice and skips this one both times:

• The Keyboard shortcuts table lists Ctrl Tab / Ctrl Shift Tab and Cmd Shift ] / Cmd Shift [ as "Next or previous session". No direct-jump row.
• Work in parallel with sessions describes Ctrl+Tab cycling and the Ctrl-click gesture that opens a session in a split pane — so the prose covers a different Ctrl chord on the same sidebar rows, and still not this one.

The table's only digit row is 1–9, "Select item in an open menu". That is a different behavior in a different context, so a reader scanning for digit shortcuts is actively pointed away from the session one.

What the row should say

Confirmed on Windows. Following the page's own convention that Windows uses Ctrl where the table writes Cmd, the macOS chord is presumably Cmd+digit, but that was not tested here.

| Shortcut | Action |
| -------- | ------ |
| Ctrl 1–Ctrl 9 | Switch to the session in that sidebar position |

Three details are worth stating alongside it, because each one surprises people who assume browser-tab semantics:

• Positions are counted across the whole sidebar, flattened over projects, not restarted per project.
• Ctrl+9 is the ninth slot, not the last session. There is no jump-to-the-end.
• Sessions past the ninth position get no number and cannot be reached this way at all.

Why this is worth a docs fix rather than shrugging at

The docs are effectively the only reference for Desktop shortcuts:

• Desktop does not read keybindings.json (#84101), so /keybindings and the keybindings reference — which document the CLI's contexts and actions in full — describe nothing that applies here.
• The in-app shortcut list is the other route, and it is unreachable on keyboard layouts where / needs Shift (#86641), so on those layouts the published table is the only list a user can get to.

The third detail above also matters beyond discoverability: The nine-slot ceiling is exactly why direct jumps do not substitute for recency-ordered cycling, which is the subject of #90624.

Related

• #81920 — the same class for the composer: Markdown formatting shortcuts exist but are documented nowhere. That report asks for formatting shortcuts specifically; this one is about a session shortcut omitted from a table that otherwise covers session navigation.
• #75523 — the pinned-sidebar state behind Ctrl+B is likewise undiscoverable and undocumented.

Environment

• Claude Desktop 1.40609.0 (Microsoft Store MSIX build), bundled engine claude-code 2.1.247
• Windows 11 Education 25H2, build 26200
• Documentation read 2026-08-30