---
title: The command line
description: Running any command by name from the command line.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/keyboard/command-line
---

# The command line
`:` opens the command line. Every command has a name, and `:` runs any of them, with completion.
![The command line, completing view](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/images/shots/keyboard/command-line.png)

| Key |          |
|-----|----------|
| `⇥` | Complete |
| `↩` | Run      |
| `⎋` | Close    |

Short forms work too:

| Typed               | Runs                                                                                                 |
|---------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `:start <prompt>`   | Start work with that prompt                                                                          |
| `:agent codex`      | Start work with that agent                                                                           |
| `:pr 2841`          | Read pull request 2841                                                                               |
| `:track <url>`      | Track a pull request in this session (`gU` takes the URL on the clipboard)                           |
| `:wt sweep`         | Run the cleanup sweep                                                                                |
| `:inbox`, `:prs`, … | Switch view                                                                                          |
| `:import <path>`    | Import the worktree at a path                                                                        |
| `:tutor [lesson]`   | The [tutor](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/getting-started/tutor)'s picker, or a lesson by name |
| `:back`, `:skip`    | In the tutor: the step again, or skip it                                                             |
| `:help`             | Every key                                                                                            |
| `:q`                | Quit (in the tutor: leave the tutor)                                                                 |


## Commands without a key

Everything you can do with the mouse, the menu bar or a global shortcut is a command too, so `:` reaches it and
`config.toml` can bind it:

| Command                    |                                                                 |
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| `:session.open <words>`    | Go to the first session matching the words                      |
| `:tab.go <n>`              | Go to tab n                                                     |
| `:filter.clear`            | Clear the view's filter                                         |
| `:issues.repo [name]`      | Show one repo's issues; no name shows every repo                |
| `:resume`                  | The "pick up where you left off" dialog, as on launch           |
| `:work.start.panel`        | Start work in the floating panel                                |
| `:settings.open [section]` | Settings, on `general`, `agents`, `colors`, `cleanup` or `keys` |
| `:app.activate`            | Bring the window to the front                                   |
| `:repo.add <path>`         | Add a repo outside the scanned folders                          |
| `:cleanup.rules`           | Show the cleanup rules                                          |

The [key reference](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/keyboard/reference) lists every command name.