Focus mode and the card strip

Some work needs the whole window. Focus mode gives one card the full area and moves everything else into a strip along the edge, so the board is still there — small, live, one click away.

The strip keeps updating while you are focused, so an agent that finishes elsewhere still shows it. Nothing about the sessions changes.

Entering and leaving

• Double-click a card, or Focus Mode on its menu.
• ⌘⌥Return toggles focus for the selected card — in and out, the same shortcut.
• Close Focus Mode returns to the grid.

The strip

The other cards become thumbnails along the side. They keep updating: an agent that finishes while you are focused elsewhere shows it in the strip, and its status badge changes.

⌘⌥← / ⌘⌥→ move along the strip, so you can walk through your sessions without leaving focus mode.

When to use it

• Reading a long agent turn, or a diff, where board-sized cards are too cramped.
• Typing a substantial prompt.
• Driving a Simulator or a browser target, where you want real pixels.

For everything else the grid wins: several agents at once, all visible.

Details

• Focus mode is a presentation of a card, not a placement. The card stays where it was on the board or in the tabs, and the session is untouched.
• Focus is per device. Focusing a card on your Mac does not change what your iPhone shows.
• Agent CLIs render in fullscreen (alternate-screen) mode, so a focused agent card has no separate scrollback for Offsite to search — the CLI manages its own history, and that is why card search is not offered for those cards.
• Placement changes — Add to Tabs, Move to Icebox — are board moves: leave fullscreen and use the card menu on the board.