Arrange windows: tidy, grid, columns, rows, focus, hero, rail

Type or say tidy and every open window snaps into a clean grid — that’s the fastest way to recover from canvas chaos. Six presets exist: Grid, Columns, Rows, Focus, Hero, and Rail, available from the Arrange button (grid icon) in the top-bar cluster, by voice, or with Ctrl+Shift+G (grid).

The presets

Preset	What it does	Say
Grid	Even tiles for everything	“tidy” or “lay out grid”
Columns	Side-by-side vertical strips	“split screen”
Rows	Stacked horizontal strips	“lay out rows”
Focus	Spotlight the active window	— (use focus below)
Hero	Active window across the top, the rest paired beneath	“hero layout”
Rail	One window at 80% width, every other window listed beside it	“rail layout”

Hero: one window across the top

Hero gives the window you’re working in the whole width of the screen at half its height, then arranges everything else underneath in pairs — two windows per row, each taking half the width. It’s the layout for when one window is the main event (a browser preview, a game you’re building, a document) but you still want the rest of your windows readable at a glance rather than shrunk into a grid.

If there’s an odd number of windows underneath, the last one stretches across the full width to close out the row.

Rail: one working window, plus a rail that lists the rest

Rail shows exactly two things: the window you’re working in, and a floating Rail panel listing every open window. Entering rail lays them out in the familiar split — the working window takes the left 80% at full height, the rail panel the right 20% — and from there both are ordinary windows on the canvas: drag them, resize them, pan and zoom around them, jump with the Pane Compass. Nothing is locked to the layout it started in.

In the rail’s list, your agent windows always lead, with a Windows divider under them and every other kind — TV, terminals, boards, Help — below it, so the agents you’re supervising stay in one place at the top. Click a name and that window swaps into the spot your working window occupies — wherever you’ve moved or resized it, that place stays “the working spot” — and the one you were in drops back into the list.

It’s the layout for a long stretch in one window — a browser preview, a document, a game — while keeping agents, boards and logs one click away instead of somewhere out on the canvas.

Because rail is a mode rather than a one-off arrangement, it stays on until you leave it:

• Opening a window brings it straight up in the working spot. It won’t scatter what you already had open.
• Closing or minimizing a window simply removes its row.
• Leaving rail lands in the standard arrangement. Choose any other preset, pick Leave rail from the Arrange menu, or click the × on the rail panel itself — the window you were focused on takes the big left cell with everything else in the column beside it: the same shape, as separate windows.

The rail’s list prefers readable rows over scrolling. As more windows open the rows shrink to fit, and the list only begins to scroll once they’ve reached their minimum readable height and still can’t all fit — however tall or short you’ve made the panel.

Spotlight one window

Say focus Alex (or click a window and press Ctrl+F, or pick Focus from the Arrange menu) — the window jumps to the center of your view at half the screen in both dimensions, and every other window grids up in quarter-screen cells beside it. With many windows the side columns extend past the view — pan over or use the Pane Compass to reach them. Nothing gets minimized, and the spotlight always lands fully on-screen, even if the window was scrolled way off-canvas. unfocus lifts the dim.

See what agents are doing

flip Alex turns an agent card around to show a headline of what it was last asked to do — big enough to read across the room, with the full prompt on hover; flip all agents (or Ctrl+Shift+F, or “show me what every agent is working on”) flips everyone at once.

The workspace keeps itself sorted: every open, close, or bring-up re-runs the default arrangement, so a drag lasts until the next window event. Windows you drop at a spot, images, and frames are never swept up — and if you want a different shape, the presets above are one command away.