Features at a glance

Everything Loom ships today, in one list. Each area has a full guide — follow the links for the how-to. Maintenance rule: when a feature ships, update this file.

Terminals & layout

Byte-opaque panes — every pane is a real PTY; Loom forwards bytes and never parses pane output as a signal. → Core concepts
The grid — binary split layout; split, resize, zoom, focus-move, and close panes without restarting the survivors. → Workspaces & the grid
Rearrange — drag a pane to swap it, or move it (process alive) to another workspace.
Overview mode — flatten a workspace into a uniform tile wall for triage.
Workspaces — many layouts, all kept mounted so background agents keep running; a rail to switch, duplicate, and theme them.
New-workspace wizard — pick a folder, a 1–16 layout, and what each pane runs, with presets.
Tear-off — pop a pane into its own OS window; the process never moves.
Session persistence — intent (layout + specs) is restored on restart; Claude panes resume.

Coordination

Inbound control bus — a process inside a pane drives every other pane over an explicit bus. → Driving panes
loom CLI — list, send, spawn, read, broadcast, focus, and more.
loom mcp tools — the same operations as model-native MCP tools for agents. → Agents, MCP & hooks
Attention & status — a pane can flag itself blocked (amber border) and set a status label. → Attention & status
Fleet coordination — roles, a shared blackboard, advisory file claims, input gates, and ask/reply between panes. → Coordinating a fleet
Fleet panel — a read-only control-room view of roles, claims, gates, asks, and usage. → The Fleet panel

Task board

Docked Kanban — project-scoped cards stored in the repo, so work travels with it.
Self-closing cards — a worker closes its own card; dispatched cards auto-close when the pane’s task ends.
Swarm drain — keep dispatching cards into fresh panes and refilling as each finishes. → The task board & swarm

Agents

Seven built-in agents — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Amazon Q, Aider, Cursor — recognized by launch command, plus bring-your-own-CLI.
Claude Code hooks — loom hooks --install bridges an agent’s lifecycle into Loom’s Session / Task / Approval model — the agent pushes state; Loom never scrapes output. → Agents, MCP & hooks

Built-in tools

Command palette, git panel, docs reader, session-log viewer, region capture, and voice dictation — all scoped to the focused pane. → Built-in tools
Reopen & history — bring back closed panes and search past agent sessions.
Themes — Loom Dark, Loom Light, Midnight, Paper.
System tray & global hotkey — summon Loom from anywhere. → Settings & configuration