Canvas tools
Most of these live in the canvas tools menu — the sliders button at the top right of the canvas. Switch its View options on and off here:
The same switches are also in Settings → Canvas.
Line cards up neatly
- Alignment guides — while you drag a card, it snaps to the edges and centres of nearby cards, and a guide line shows the match.
- Snap to grid — cards move in steps of the dot grid, so rows and columns line up by themselves.
Minimap
A small overview of the whole canvas in the corner. Drag or scroll it to move around. It’s off by default; switch on Minimap in the tools menu.
Colour tags
Right-click any card’s header and pick a Colour tag — the card gets a coloured edge (for an agent, also Color tag in its ⋯ menu). Remove tag takes it off.
Jump to whoever’s waiting
CtrlShiftJ flies the camera to the agent that has been waiting for you the longest. Press it again for the next one.
Present your canvas
Press F5 (or Present cards in the tools menu) to step through the cards one by one, like slides — great for showing a colleague what your squad did. Use the arrow buttons or keys to move, and End presentation to leave. Sticky cards make good title slides.
Agent mascots
A tiny robot on each AI agent card shows at a glance whether it is Working, Waiting for you, Finished, Idle or Stopped. Turn Agent mascots off in the tools menu if you prefer a calmer canvas.
Arrow log
Click an arrow to open its Arrow log: every command, page visit, note or delegated task that went over it, with times — kept across restarts. Clear log empties it. (Double-clicking an arrow still removes it.) See it in action on Arrows give abilities.
Record and replay a workspace
Start recording records everything the open workspace shows — every terminal byte, the canvas, browser and other cards — until Stop recording (or the red Recording chip in the title bar). Recordings… lists what you recorded and replays it on a timeline, with no agent running. See Workspace recording.
Workspace templates
Built a setup you like? Save as template… keeps its cards, layout, arrows and frames — plus card names, colour tags and the workspace’s setup commands. Conversations, terminal history, notes and lists stay behind.
To reuse it: New workspace from template…, give it a name and a project folder, and you get the same setup, ready to go.
Add a template to a workspace you already have
A template doesn’t need a workspace of its own. Insert template… (in the canvas tools menu, and as Template… at the bottom of the add-card menu) opens the templates on that workspace; any import started while a workspace is open — Use template in the marketplace, a file, a link — also starts on Add to existing, and New workspace is one press away.
- The workspace keeps its folder and where it runs (this computer, WSL or SSH), so the dialog only lists what can run there; agents that can’t are named before you confirm.
- The new cards land together beside what’s already on the canvas, in the template’s own arrangement — in a frame named after the template when it brings no frame of its own. Nothing that was there moves, and no running agent is restarted.
- Cards a workspace needs only once — squad, budget, Code Graph, RTK, and a Memory, caveman, Context7, MCP or skill card set up the same way — are reused: the template’s arrows go to your card instead of a second copy.
- An agent that asks for its own worktree gets one only if the folder is a git repository; otherwise it works in the folder itself, and the dialog says so.
- Undo in the toast that follows removes exactly the added cards and frames. Anything installed for the template stays installed.