Keys

Every key in the Candle Harness, from the table the Candle Harness itself reads to act on them, so this page and the keys can’t differ. ? with the input line empty shows the same list in the Candle Harness, and the hint line beside the input line says what ⏎ and esc do where you are.

Two rules hold whatever is open. ctrl-x twice is the kill switch from anywhere, overlays included. And ⏎ approves a card only with the input line empty, once the card has shown for 300 ms; a pick in the palette never approves one.

Anything drawn as a chip can be clicked. The last column names the key’s row in the palette (ctrl-k), where it has one.

Key	Where	What it does	In the palette
⏎	with the line empty	Approve the highlighted card, once it has shown for 300 ms (1.5 s when it arrived while another card was waiting).
⏎	with text on the line	Send it, as a command or to the agent.
ctrl-n	anywhere	Reject the highlighted card.	“reject”
ctrl-o	anywhere	See everything the highlighted card is bound to.	“card details”
ctrl-r	anywhere	Re-quote the newest expired card at the current price.	“re-quote”
ctrl-t	anywhere	Ask the agent: about the highlighted row, a question put on the line; or a trade naming a token nobody has shown, sent as typed.	“ask the agent”
esc	with the line empty	Stop the agent’s turn; a message waiting runs next.	“stop the turn”
esc	in the Journal’s search	Give the keys back to the input line; ↑ from the Journal’s first row, or its search chip, types into it again, and ⏎ keeps the search.
↑	on the Journal’s first row	Type into the Journal’s search line: words, a token, an agent; it searches everything recorded.
ctrl-x twice	anywhere	Kill switch: pause buys, stop the agent; sells still work.	“kill switch”
ctrl-k	anywhere	The palette: every action, tab, layout, pane, agent, preset, token and Candle command.
?	with the line empty	The commands you can type, and every key.	“help”
? then c	in help	The palette at Candle’s commands, each a request for the agent.
ctrl-g	anywhere	The agent’s preset, engine and model, from its next turn.
ctrl-p	on a pane	Pop the focused pane out into a tmux or cmux split of its own; it comes back when you close it there.
ctrl-f	anywhere	Positions, wallets, activity: all agents, or the active one.	“one agent or all”
tab · ←/→ · ↑/↓	anywhere	Move between panes; ↑/↓ in a list picks a row’s token.
PgUp/PgDn · wheel	anywhere	Scroll the focused pane, or the one under the mouse.
1-9	on the tab bar	Pick a tab: press tab until the tab bar has the keys, then its digit; or click it, or find it in the palette (on the line, a digit types).
ctrl-]	anywhere	Leave the CLI prompt pane or the Build pane’s harness, or come back to it.
⏎	in the Build pane, before its harness runs	Go on through the first open, or start your coding harness in the bots folder.
←/→ · home/end · ⌫	with text on the line	Edit the line.
ctrl-u	anywhere	Clear the line.
ctrl-a · ctrl-e	anywhere	The start or end of the line.
ctrl-c twice	anywhere	Quit; once clears the line, closes what’s open, or copies text selected with the mouse.