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title: "Muse Code GUI keyboard shortcuts and slash commands"
url: https://helicon.sh/guides/keyboard-shortcuts
description: "The command palette, slash commands in the composer, and the model and reasoning effort picker. Everything in Helicon is reachable without a mouse."
updated: 2026-09-19
site: Helicon
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# Driving Helicon from the keyboard

Open the command palette to jump to any project, session or action. Slash commands work in the composer the way they do in the CLI, and the model and reasoning effort picker changes the next turn without restarting the thread. No part of Helicon requires a pointing device.

## The palette is the main road

If you know the name of a project or a session, the palette is faster than the sidebar. It also holds the actions, so new thread, stop, background, settings, theme and usage are all one search away.

## In the composer

- Slash commands, matching what the CLI accepts.
- Goal controls, so you can set or change the standing objective without leaving the input.
- The model and reasoning effort picker, applied to the next turn.

## Why this exists

The reasonable objection to any GUI over a CLI is that it will be slower. It is only slower if it forces the mouse. Everything here was built so the keyboard path is the fast one.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I remap shortcuts?

The palette covers every action by name, which is the intended fast path. Settings holds the app level preferences.

### Do slash commands behave like the CLI?

The composer accepts them, and the goal controls also exist as panel buttons when you prefer clicking.

### Can I switch model mid thread?

Yes, with the picker. It applies from the next turn.

## Related

- [Keyboard and palette](https://helicon.sh/features/command-palette): A command palette, slash commands and a model and reasoning effort picker. Every project, session and action in Helicon is reachable without the mouse.
- [Goals](https://helicon.sh/features/goals): Set, pause, resume, change and clear a Muse Code goal from the goal panel or the composer, without dropping back into the terminal to retype a slash command.
- [Session history and resume](https://helicon.sh/features/session-history): Every Muse Code session, grouped by project, with full history and one click resume. Sessions started in the muse terminal TUI are discovered and resumable too.

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Helicon is a free, MIT licensed, unofficial community client for Meta's Muse Code CLI. Not made, sponsored or endorsed by Meta. Source: https://helicon.sh/. Machine readable index: https://helicon.sh/llms.txt