Steering & attachments
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An orchestrator pane has a thin compose field docked under its terminal (styled like the task board’s Add a task field). This is the collision-proof way to talk to a running orchestrator — steer its plans, answer a question, or redirect it — without fighting the CLI’s own input box.
Steering strip
Type steering in the strip and press Enter — loomux enqueues it to the orchestrator through the same serialized delivery path worker reports use, so your message and an incoming report can never land in each other’s text: the pane’s input has exactly one writer.
- The field wraps and grows to a few lines as you type; Shift+Enter inserts a newline for a multi-line message, and past a few lines it scrolls internally rather than pushing the terminal (the strip floats over it, so the PTY is never resized).
- Focus the strip with
Alt+P(or click it);Eschands focus back to the terminal. - Because it’s a loomux field and not the CLI’s own input box, it never steals the terminal’s keys — type freely in the terminal and the strip stays out of the way.
- Steering a paused group, or a pane with no live orchestrator, is reported inline rather than silently dropped.
You can still type directly into the CLI if you prefer; loomux holds an incoming report for a few seconds while it sees you typing there, but the strip is the collision-proof path.
Attach a screenshot
Paste an image with Ctrl+V (or click the paperclip to pick files) and it joins the message as a thumbnail chip — remove one with its ✕, or queue several.
On send, loomux saves each image to the group’s scratch dir and adds an Attached image: reference line to the message — formatted the way the orchestrator’s CLI reads it (a plain path for Claude Code, an @<path> mention for Copilot) — so the agent opens the screenshot.
- Accepted formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, BMP.
- Up to 10 MB each and 8 per message.
- The saved files are cleaned up when the group ends.
Related
- The voice prompts 🎤 button records straight into this strip.
- The task board’s merge-gate and ▶ Start buttons deliver through the same one-writer path, so board actions and typed steering never collide.