Keyboard shortcuts available across the Plannotator review and annotation UIs.

Plan review

Shortcuts surfaced by the plan review UI.

Actions

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Approve / Send feedback Approves when there are no annotations and sends feedback when there are.
Cmd/Ctrl+S Save to notes app Opens Export if no default notes app is configured.
Escape Close diff view Available while plan diff is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+P Print Opens the browser print dialog for the current document.

Input Method

Shortcut Action Notes
Hold Alt Temporarily switch input method Hold Alt to switch between Select and Pinpoint, then release to revert.
Double-tap Alt Toggle input method Double-tap Alt to switch between Select and Pinpoint until you toggle again.

Annotations

Shortcut Action Notes
A-Z Start comment Typing a letter opens the comment editor with that character.
Alt+1-0 Apply toolbar label Applies the matching preset label while the annotation toolbar is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+C Copy selected text
1-0 Apply picker label Available while the quick label picker is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Submit comment
Escape Close comment Available while the comment editor is open.
Escape Close toolbar Available while the annotation toolbar is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Save annotation edit Available while editing an annotation in the side panel.
Escape Cancel annotation edit Available while editing an annotation in the side panel.
Escape Close image lightbox Available while an image is open in the lightbox.

Image Annotator

Shortcut Action Notes
1 Pen tool
2 Arrow tool
3 Circle tool
Cmd/Ctrl+Z Undo
Enter or Escape Save and close annotator When the image name field is focused, Escape blurs it first and Enter confirms the name; both close the annotator otherwise.

Annotate mode

Shortcuts surfaced by the standalone annotation UI.

Actions

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Send annotations
Cmd/Ctrl+S Save to notes app Opens Export if no default notes app is configured.
Cmd/Ctrl+P Print Opens the browser print dialog for the current document.

Input Method

Shortcut Action Notes
Hold Alt Temporarily switch input method Hold Alt to switch between Select and Pinpoint, then release to revert.
Double-tap Alt Toggle input method Double-tap Alt to switch between Select and Pinpoint until you toggle again.

Annotations

Shortcut Action Notes
A-Z Start comment Typing a letter opens the comment editor with that character.
Alt+1-0 Apply toolbar label Applies the matching preset label while the annotation toolbar is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+C Copy selected text
1-0 Apply picker label Available while the quick label picker is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Submit comment
Escape Close comment Available while the comment editor is open.
Escape Close toolbar Available while the annotation toolbar is open.
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Save annotation edit Available while editing an annotation in the side panel.
Escape Cancel annotation edit Available while editing an annotation in the side panel.
Escape Close image lightbox Available while an image is open in the lightbox.

Image Annotator

Shortcut Action Notes
1 Pen tool
2 Arrow tool
3 Circle tool
Cmd/Ctrl+Z Undo
Enter or Escape Save and close annotator When the image name field is focused, Escape blurs it first and Enter confirms the name; both close the annotator otherwise.

Code review

Shortcuts surfaced by the code review UI.

Actions

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Approve / Send feedback
Double-tap Alt Toggle review destination Double-tap to switch between platform and agent in PR review mode.
Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+F Focus search Available when the file tree search bar is shown.
Enter or F3 Next search result
Shift+Enter or Shift+F3 Previous search result
Escape Clear search / close panel

Layout

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+B Toggle file tree
Cmd/Ctrl+. Toggle review sidebar
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T Toggle demo tour dialog Available in dev builds only.

File Actions

Shortcut Action Notes
V Toggle file viewed Marks the active diff file as viewed (and auto-collapses in all-files view).
A Stage current file Available when staging is supported (not in PR review mode).

File Navigation

Shortcut Action Notes
J or ArrowDown Next file
K or ArrowUp Previous file
Home First file
End Last file

All-Files View

Shortcut Action Notes
X Collapse / expand current file Available when the all-files diff panel is active.
Z Undo last collapse Reopens the most recently auto-collapsed file (auto-collapse fires when toggling viewed).
C Add file-scoped comment Opens the file-scoped comment popover for the active file.
] Scroll to next expanded file All-files panel only.
[ Scroll to previous expanded file All-files panel only.

Annotations

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Submit comment
Tab Indent suggested code
Escape Close comment editor Available while the review comment editor is open.

Suggestion Editor

Shortcut Action Notes
Tab Indent (insert spaces) Available in the expanded suggestion editor.
Escape Close suggestion editor Closes the modal; suggestion text is preserved on the underlying comment.

AI Assistant

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter Send message Available in the AI tab and the Ask AI inline input.
Escape Cancel inline AI input Available in the Ask AI inline input.

PR Comments

Shortcut Action Notes
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F Focus PR comments search Available while the PR Comments tab is open in the review sidebar.

Tour

Shortcut Action Notes
Escape Close tour Available while the code tour dialog is open.

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