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Home is what the window shows when no session is open. It tells you in one sentence what needs you and what is working, and gives you a quick way to start in one of your projects.

Home: a card for a session that needs you, one that is working, the queue, four project tiles under Start in a project, and the two Claude profilesHome: a card for a session that needs you, one that is working, the queue, four project tiles under Start in a project, and the two Claude profiles

Open it

Section titled “Open it”
  • Press Command, Shift, HControl, Shift, H.
  • Click Home under the search field in the sidebar (the house button in the minimal sidebar).
  • Choose Home in the command palette.
  • Close the session you have open with the × in its header, or Close session in the command palette.

Switchboard also opens on Home, unless you choose otherwise in Settings.

What’s on it

Section titled “What’s on it”

From top to bottom:

  • The summary, such as “1 session needs you, 2 are working.”, and the New session button (Command, NControl, N).
  • Needs you Needs you: a card per session that waits for you, with its project and branch, what it asks for (“Permission: Bash”, “Question”, “Plan to review”) and Open.
  • Working Working: a card per session Claude is working on, with what it is doing. Click one to open it.
  • Unsent: the messages you typed and didn’t send, each with Open. See Unsent messages.
  • Queue: your first three queued prompts, with Start on the ones that are ready and ⋯ for the rest. See all in Upcoming opens Upcoming on the whole queue. See Queue.
  • Schedules: your first three scheduled sessions, each with its rule, its last and next run, Run now and ⋯. See all in Upcoming opens Upcoming on every schedule. Schedule a session opens New session, with Start set to Schedule…. A line under the card says when schedules run: while Switchboard is running, also with its windows closedwhile a Switchboard window is open. See Schedules.
  • Start in a project: tiles for four of your projects, with the branch checked out and how many sessions are open there. Click one to open New session on that project.
  • Profiles (or Usage with one profile): each Claude profile’s plan usage and what its sessions are doing. Click the usage to see what used it in the Usage view.

Needs you and Working only show when there is something in them. With the window narrow, the columns stack.

Before you have projects

Section titled “Before you have projects”

Without projects, Home says Add your first project with an Add a project button. See First launch.

Settings

Section titled “Settings”
  • Settings, General: On startup picks what Switchboard shows when it opens: Home (the default), The last session or New session. Settings, Projects: Project order picks which projects get a tile: Recent (the ones you used last) or Your order (the order you set in Projects).
  • Show sessions from other apps in Settings, Sidebar adds sessions from the terminal, Claude desktop and your editor to Needs you and Working.
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