Keyboard shortcuts

The modifier is ⌘ (Command) on macOS; use Ctrl on Linux/Windows.

Every shortcut below is also available by name from the command palette (⌘⇧P).

Files & navigation

Shortcut	Action
`⌘N`	New file
`⌘P`	Search: files, symbols, actions, text
`⌘E`	Recent files (most recently used)
`⌘O`	Open folder / project (new window)
`⌘⇧P`	Command palette
`⌘⇧O`	Go to symbol in workspace
`⌃G`	Go to line (`line` or `line:col`)
`⌃-`	Go back
`⌃⇧-`	Go forward
`F12`	Go to definition
`⇧F12`	Find references
`F1`	Hover info

Editing

Shortcut	Action
`⌘S`	Save file
`⌘⇧S`	Save as…
`⌘W`	Close tab / terminal / agent
`⌘D`	Duplicate line
`⌘⇧D`	Add cursor at next occurrence
`⌥⌘↑` / `⌥⌘↓`	Add cursor above / below (column editing)
`⌥↑` / `⌥↓`	Move line up / down
`⇧⌥↓`	Duplicate line down
`⌘⇧K`	Delete line
`⌘]` / `⌘[`	Indent / outdent
`⌘/`	Toggle line comment
`⌘⇧L`	Select all occurrences
`⌘⌥U`	Toggle the visual undo tree
`F2`	Rename symbol
`⌘.`	Code actions / refactor (quick fixes, extract)
`⌘Space`	Trigger completion
`Tab`	Expand Emmet abbreviation (HTML/Blade/Vue/Svelte)

Brackets and quotes auto-close as you type; typing the closing character types over it, and backspace deletes an empty pair.

Find & replace

Shortcut	Action
`⌘F`	Find in file
`⌥⌘F`	Replace in file
`⌘⇧F`	Search in files (workspace)
`↑` / `↓`	Previous / next match (in the find bar)

The find bar has toggles for case-sensitive (Aa), whole-word (W) and regular expressions (.*).

View & panels

Shortcut	Action
`⌘1`	Toggle sidebar
`⌘2`	Toggle Source Control panel
`⌘3`	Toggle database panel
`⌘↵`	Run SQL under cursor (in a PHP query string); elsewhere in a Laravel project's PHP, evaluate the expression at the caret
`⌥⌘↵`	Explain SQL under cursor (flags full scans / missing indexes); on an Eloquent chain, explain its queries and offer the missing index
`⌘T`	Toggle terminal
`⌘⇧B`	Run task
`⌘L`	Toggle agent panel
`⌘\`	Split editor
`⌘B` / `⌘I`	Markdown: bold / italic
`⌘K`	Markdown: link
`⌘⇧X`	Markdown: toggle task checkbox
`⌘⇧M`	Toggle markdown preview
`⌘=` / `⌘-`	Zoom in / out
`⌘0`	Reset zoom
`⌥Z`	Toggle word wrap
`F8`	Switch between the dark theme in use and Light (themes: Settings → Appearance)
`⌘,`	Open settings

AI & Laravel

Shortcut	Action
`⌘⌥K`	Semantic search ("describe what you're looking for")
`⌘⌥M`	Laravel architecture map (route → controller → view/page, request-replay)
`⌘⌥R`	Eloquent relationship graph
`⌘⌥G`	Event dispatch graph
`⌘⌥E`	Related files (model / migration / …)
`⌘⌥C`	Inertia props contract / generate TypeScript
`⌘⌥J`	Livewire: switch between view and class
`⌘⌥I`	Runtime insight (Telescope-style capture)
`⌘⌥L`	Laravel log tail
`⌘⌥T`	Tinker scratchpad
`⌘⇧,`	Laravel menu (every Laravel command)
`⌘⇧N`	New Eloquent Model (spec → model, migration, factory, requests, controller, …)
`⌘⇧R`	Route search
`⌘⇧A`	Artisan command palette
`⌘⇧T`	Autonomous TDD panel
`⌘⌥A`	Agent activity timeline
`⌘⌥S`	Send editor selection to the agent
`⌘⌥V`	Session review (what the agent changed)

Schema diff (migrations vs live DB) and Laravel: refresh are available from the command palette (⌘⇧P). See Laravel and AI Agents.

Debugging

Shortcut	Action
`F5`	Start / continue
`F9`	Toggle breakpoint on the caret line
`F10`	Step over
`F11`	Step into
`⇧F11`	Step out

⌥-click in the editor also toggles a breakpoint on that line. The Debug panel and Debug: Stop are available from the command palette (⌘⇧P). See Debugging.

Source Control

The Source Control panel (⌘2) provides stage, unstage, discard, stage-all, commit, push, and pull. See Source Control.

Other

Shortcut	Action
`Esc`	Close palettes, dialogs, find/replace, prompts
`Ctrl+``	Toggle terminal (alternative)