# Keyboard shortcuts

Every key Flockbay binds, by where it works: Flockbay’s window, the chat and the Godot editor. Help › Keyboard shortcuts shows the same list in the app, with a filter. Flockbay’s editor commands rebind in Editor Settings › Shortcuts › Flockbay.

Source: https://flockbay.com/docs/keyboard-shortcuts/ · Updated 2026-10-27

## Flockbay window

In Flockbay’s own window. **Command palette…** (Ctrl+Shift+P) lists every action of the ≡ menu and, on a chat, the project menu’s and Publishing tools’; type to narrow it, and Enter runs the one selected.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Command palette |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| Ctrl+O | Open project…, anywhere but a chat |
| Ctrl+N | New project…, on Home |
| Ctrl+I | Import…, on Home |
| Ctrl+F | Filter projects, on Home |
| Enter | Open the project, on a project in Home |
| F5 | Play the project, on a project in Home |
| Ctrl+PageDown / Ctrl+PageUp | Next / previous tab, in Publishing tools |
| Alt+F4 | Close window |

## Chat

In the chat, in the editor’s dock and in Flockbay’s window. A / at the start of a message offers **/model**, **/compact**, **/undo** and **/review**; any other /word is sent as typed, so Claude Code and Codex still get their own commands. **Find in chat** (Ctrl+F) highlights every match in the thread: Enter or F3 goes to the next one, Shift+Enter or Shift+F3 to the previous one, and Esc closes it.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Enter | Send the message |
| Shift+Enter | New line |
| Esc | Stop the turn, from an empty message box while Flockbay works |
| Esc | Back to the editor, from an empty message box in the editor’s dock |
| ↑ | Previous message, from an empty message box |
| @ | Add a file or asset, in the message box |
| / | Commands: /model, /compact, /undo, /review, at the start of a message |
| Ctrl+F | Find in chat |
| Ctrl+/ | Model menu |
| Ctrl+Shift+A | Build / Ask |
| Shift+Tab | Next permission mode, in the message box: Plan mode, Ask before edits, Edit automatically (Full access is picked from the menu) |
| Ctrl+Shift+M | Next permission mode, anywhere in the chat |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Next effort level |
| Ctrl+O | Transcript view: Normal, Thinking, Verbose |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Version control |
| Ctrl+` | Open in Terminal at the game’s folder |
| Ctrl+Enter | Commit, in the Version control panel |
| Ctrl+N | New chat on this project |
| Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Next / previous chat |
| F2 / Del | Rename / delete a chat, in Chats |
| Ctrl+click | Open a chat beside this one, on a chat in Chats |
| Ctrl+1 / Ctrl+2 | Focus the left / right chat, with a chat beside |
| Ctrl+\ | Close the chat beside, or Review changes, in Flockbay’s window |
| ↑ / ↓ | Previous / next file, in Review changes |
| 1–9 | Pick an option, on a question card |
| Page Up / Page Down | Previous / next question, on a question card |
| Ctrl+Enter | Answer, on a question card; Create, in the New project dialog |
| F5 / F8 | Play / Stop, in the editor’s chat |
| Ctrl+S | Save scene, in the editor’s chat |
| Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 | Zoom the chat in, out, or reset, in the editor’s dock |

## Godot editor

Flockbay’s commands are in Godot’s command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) under Flockbay. Rebind any of them, or bind one that has no key, in Editor Settings › Shortcuts › Flockbay.

| Key | Command |
| --- | --- |
| Ctrl+Alt+I | Focus Chat |
| Ctrl+Alt+N | New Chat |
| Ctrl+Alt+/ | Switch Model |
| Ctrl+Alt+, | Open Settings |
| Ctrl+` | Open in Terminal |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Command Palette |
| F5 | Play |
| F8 | Stop |
| Not bound | Show Chats, Stop Turn, Share for Playtesting, Open Publishing Tools, Open Playtests, Switch Editor View (Minimal/Standard/Full) |

## Running the game

Godot’s own run keys, in the editor and the Game screen. [Play and debug](/docs/play-and-debug/) has what each run does.

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| F5 | Play the main scene |
| F6 | Run the open scene |
| F7 | Break or continue the attached game |
| F8 | Stop |
| F9 | Suspend the game |
| F10 | Next Frame, while suspended |
| Ctrl+S | Save the scene |

Related: [Play and debug](/docs/play-and-debug/), [The editor](/docs/the-editor/), [Command line](/docs/command-line/)