Built-in tools

Beyond terminals and the bus, Loom bundles a set of tools for the surrounding developer workflow. All open from the Ctrl+Shift namespace (see Keyboard shortcuts) and act on the focused pane or its working directory.

Command palette — Ctrl+Shift+P

A fuzzy launcher for every action, plus jump-to-pane by name across all workspaces. When you can’t remember a shortcut, start here.

Git panel — Ctrl+Shift+G

A VS Code-style source-control panel scoped to the focused pane’s repository: a Staged / Changes list above a unified diff. It closes the loop, not just a viewer — stage and unstage files (the +/− on each row, or Stage all / Unstage all), write a message, and Commit. You can also queue diff hunks, comments, or whole files into a review and send it to a pane — handy for pointing an agent at exactly what to look at.

Every write is user-initiated (Loom never auto-commits), and the git write actions are not exposed over the control bus — so an agent can’t stage or commit on its own.

Docs reader — Ctrl+Shift+R

Walks the focused pane’s working directory for Markdown, lets you read it in-app, mark a passage, and send it into a pane — handy for feeding an agent the relevant spec without leaving Loom.

Session log viewer — Ctrl+Shift+J

Opens the focused pane’s session log and lets you export the transcript (Copy as Markdown). Raw per-pane output logging is opt-in in Settings.

Region capture — Ctrl+Shift+S

Screenshot a region of your screen to a PNG and drop its file path into the focused pane’s prompt (without pressing Enter), so you can hand an agent an image. On Linux this uses flameshot or gnome-screenshot.

Voice dictation — Ctrl+Shift+M

Dictate into the focused pane: Loom transcribes speech to text locally and types it in. A listening overlay shows while it’s active; the first run downloads the speech model.

Reopen & history

• Reopen last closed — Ctrl+Shift+Z brings back the last pane or workspace you closed, resuming a Claude conversation if that’s what was there.
• Reopen panel — Ctrl+Shift+Y lists recently-closed panes and past Claude sessions to restore.
• History search — Ctrl+Shift+H searches your agent history (a bounded, pruned store).

Themes

Loom ships four themes — Loom Dark, Loom Light, Midnight, and Paper — each styling both the app chrome and the terminals. Switch from the workspace rail; your choice is remembered.

Editor & external tools

• Open folder in editor — Ctrl+Shift+I opens the focused pane’s directory in your configured editor (Settings → editorCommand, default code).
• Font size — Ctrl+Shift++ / Ctrl+Shift+-.
• Copy / paste / find — Ctrl+Shift+C / V, and Ctrl+Shift+F to search the scrollback.

System tray & global hotkey

Loom lives in the system tray (summon / hide / quit), and a configurable global hotkey (default `Ctrl+Alt+``) summons or hides the window from anywhere. Both are covered in Settings.