Getting around
Jensen has four views and one panel. Everything else is reachable from the command palette.
How this documentation names things
Section titled “How this documentation names things”A path is written as view, then surface, then control. Right panel > Git > Versioning means
open the right panel, pick the Git tab, then the Versioning section.
Settings paths always name their group, one of Workspace, AI, Extensions or System, so Settings, AI, Knowledge is unambiguous when two sections share a word.
Anything in the app is reachable three ways: a keyboard shortcut, the command palette, or the click path above. This documentation gives the shortest of the three.
The four views
Section titled “The four views”| View | Key | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Project | Cmd 1 |
The map. Your codebase drawn as a graph you drill through by altitude. |
| Sessions | Cmd 2 |
Terminals and agents, each in its own isolated checkout. |
| Work | Cmd 3 |
Issues, merge requests and pipelines for the repositories you have connected. |
| Code | Cmd 4 |
The editor. Files, tabs, problems, output and the debugger. |
On Linux and Windows the view keys are Alt 1 to Alt 4. Plugins can contribute whole views, which
appear in the same switcher and take Cmd 5. See
Plugins and themes.
Each view has an empty state that says what it needs. With no project open, Project reads Map your codebase, Sessions reads Run agents in parallel, Work reads Track issues and pipelines, and Code reads Understand any codebase.
The keyboard map
Section titled “The keyboard map”Cmd is Ctrl on Linux and Windows, except for the view keys noted above. Everything here is
rebindable in Settings, Workspace, Keyboard.
Moving around the app
| Command | Key |
|---|---|
| Command Palette | Cmd K |
| Toggle the right panel | Cmd J |
| Toggle Terminal | Cmd Shift J |
| Toggle Sidebar | Cmd B |
| Settings | Cmd , |
| Open Project | Cmd O |
| Zoom in, out, reset | Cmd =, Cmd -, Cmd 0 |
Files and symbols
| Command | Key |
|---|---|
| Go to File | Cmd P |
| Fuzzy Finder | Cmd E |
| Go to Symbol in File | Cmd Shift O |
| Go to Symbol in Project | Cmd T |
| Go to Line | Ctrl G |
| Find in File | Cmd F |
| Find in Files | Cmd Shift F |
| Format Document | Ctrl Shift F |
| Save, Save All | Cmd S, Cmd Shift S |
| Close Tab, Reopen Closed Tab | Cmd W, Cmd Shift T |
Moving through code
| Command | Key |
|---|---|
| Back, Forward | Cmd Alt Left, Cmd Alt Right |
| Next, Previous Change | Alt Down, Alt Up |
| Next, Previous Problem | F8, Shift F8 |
| Next, Previous Function | Cmd Down, Cmd Up |
| Jensen Actions | Cmd . |
| Mark Line, Select to Mark | Cmd Shift M, Cmd Shift A |
Debugging
| Command | Key |
|---|---|
| Start or continue | F5 |
| Stop | Shift F5 |
| Step over, into, out | F10, F11, Shift F11 |
Notifications, Format Selection and Set Up This Project ship unbound, and can be given a key in the same settings section.
The command palette
Section titled “The command palette”Cmd K is the fastest route to anything, and it takes plain language as well as command names. Its
placeholder says what it accepts: Search files, commands, or ask in words.
It reaches navigation, maintenance such as Check Health and Manage LSP servers, direct jumps into settings, editor toggles such as Vim Mode and Word Wrap, and per-item entries for the current file. Plugins contribute their commands into the same list.
The right panel
Section titled “The right panel”Cmd J opens a drawer on the right. Git and Trace are always there, and Sessions and
Terminal are pinned at the end. The rest appear according to where you are and what you have
selected, and can be closed.
| Tab | What it shows | When |
|---|---|---|
| Git | Commits, Versioning and Worktrees, chosen from the caret on the tab itself. | Always |
| Trace | The session timeline and the restore points on it. | Always |
| Overview | Project status, active work, what is assigned to you, what is ready to merge. | Project view |
| Findings | Deterministic detections from the map. | Once an analysis has run |
| Knowledge | What the assistant has learned, and its open questions. | With the map’s self-learning highlight on |
| Documentation | Indexed documentation and its citations. | Once a symbol is engaged |
| Issue | The issue inspector. | On selecting an issue |
| Pipeline | A pipeline run and its jobs. | On selecting a run |
| File | Details for the selected file. | On selecting a file |
| Notifications | The last 24 hours. | On opening the bell |
Plugins can add panels of their own.
The space switcher
Section titled “The space switcher”Top left. It shows the current project name, or No project, and opens Recent Projects, Open New, New Sandbox, Remove project and Settings. See Open a project.
The project overview
Section titled “The project overview”The Overview tab answers “what should I be doing”. It carries Project status, Active work, Assigned to you, Ready to merge, how far the branch is ahead or behind, how many files changed, and a Jensen suggests line. From it you can Start session, Open Sessions, Push or Refresh overview. With nothing outstanding it says You are all caught up.
Beside it sit Project checks, the project’s architecture summary with Review and confirm, and Storage, broken into code graph, knowledge, traces and other, with Clean up.
Running your project’s services
Section titled “Running your project’s services”Run project in the top bar detects the services in your repository and runs them.
- Detect services and Re-detect services find what is there.
- Run all, Stop all, and per-service Run, Stop, Restart and Open.
- Live output per service, with Edit servers.yaml when you want to correct what was detected.
With nothing found it says No services detected, and with nothing running, No server running.
Running project commands needs a trusted workspace. See Trust and permissions.
Notifications and background tasks
Section titled “Notifications and background tasks”The bell opens Notifications, scoped to the last 24 hours, with per-entry actions, Clear, and Nothing in the last 24 hours when it is quiet.
Longer work reports into the Background Tasks centre in Sessions: documentation indexing, and the approval gates that pause an agent run, Approve requirements and Approve execution. Finished results are picked up with Collect or thrown away with Discard.