Application commands

These commands manage the app itself — the current tab's transcript and name, the syntax theme, and quitting. For creating tabs see Agents; for opening files and pages see Opening files and pages.

Command	What it does
help	List the available commands and key bindings
state	Show the current agent's saved state fields (long values truncated)
clear	Empty the current tab's transcript — other tabs are unaffected
rename [newname]	Set (or, bare, clear) the tab's display alias — see Tabs
syntax theme [name]	Switch the editor syntax theme; bare form opens a picker
notifications [left|right]	Open the notifications feed, optionally docked in a sidebar
notify <message>	Push a custom line into the notifications feed
quit	Exit the application, after confirmation

syntax theme

syntax theme <name> sets the syntax-highlighting theme used by every open editor tab, and persists it so it survives a restart. Names match case-insensitively. An unrecognized name shows an error listing the available themes — which is also a quick way to see what's on offer. Bare syntax theme opens a picker overlay instead: arrows move, Return picks, Escape closes.

quit and the confirmation dialog

quit is the only command that exits the whole app, and it always asks first: a dialog reading "Are you sure you want to quit?" with Quit (y) and Cancel (n) buttons. Cancel is selected by default, so a stray Enter is safe. Press y to confirm or n / Escape to cancel; ←/→ move the selection. While the dialog is open it traps all other input — clicks outside it and other keys do nothing.

Don't reach for exit to leave the app: exit is an alias of close and closes the current tab. The one overlap is the last tab — closing it exits the app, so typing close or exit there shows the same confirmation dialog (see Tabs).

notifications and notify

notifications opens a single feed tab that collects background-tab events — an agent finishing, a message arriving, a scheduled command firing, an agent starting a turn. Each event type is off until you turn it on in .janissary/config.json. notifications left or notifications right docks the feed into a sidebar. notify <message> posts your own line into that feed from any tab, which always shows (even from the focused tab) as long as the feed is open. If the feed isn't open, events and notify messages are simply dropped — nothing is queued up. The full page is Notifications.

Command comments

Anything between ## markers is stripped from a command before it runs or is saved to history:

git status ## check before the demo ##
## just cleaning up ## clear

Both run normally with the comment removed. A ## with no closing marker comments out the rest of the line. A line that's only a comment does nothing. You'll also see the app use this itself: commands fired by the scheduler appear in the transcript as <command> ## scheduled ##.