The tab bar

Agents: claude, codex, opencode · On: phone, desktop

Tap Tabs (#tabs-open), or pull in from the left edge of the transcript, for the tab bar (#drawer): Worktop and your projects, each with its open tabs under it. Pick a tab, close it, drag it somewhere else in its project, switch project, or make a new one. On a window 1080px wide or more it is a column on the left instead of a drawer.

Why you would use it

The strip shows only the active project's tabs, as small targets with short names. The tab bar shows every project, and each tab as a full-width row with its folder underneath (in Worktop), which is what you need to reach another project or a name too long for the strip.

How to use it

Tap Tabs, or put a finger on the left tenth of the transcript and drag right. The panel follows your finger during the swipe.
Release past about 36 px to open it; less snaps it shut. Tapping the icon opens it immediately. On a phone, opening the drawer hides the keyboard. Tap its search field to type again.
Tap a row to go to that tab. A tab under another project switches you to that project too. The drawer closes behind you. On a phone the tab opens 200 ms after the tap, the time a second tap has to rename it instead.

The drawer open over the dimmed transcript: Worktop open with strip-style rows (the agent's mark, name, folder, the status with the model and effort, a cross) ending in the dotted New tab row, the notes project collapsed under it, and New project at the bottom. 4. Tap a project heading's chevron (.xchev) to open or close its list, or its name (.wsname) to switch to that project. The heading's plus (.wsplus) opens a tab in it, and so does the New tab row under an open project's last tab (.wsnew). See projects. 5. Tap the cross (.wsclose) on a row to close that tab. With a mouse you can also right-click the row and choose Close. To rename one, pick Rename in its ⋯ menu, or double-tap or double-click the row. See rename-a-tab. 6. Press and hold a row, then drag it up or down to reorder the tabs inside its project. Hold a project's name to drag the whole project; Worktop stays first. 7. Type into the search field under TABS (#tab-search) to narrow the list to the tabs whose name or messages match. See search-tabs. 8. Tap New project at the bottom (#drawer-new) to open the card in project mode. 9. To put the drawer away, drag it back towards the left edge past about 70 px, or tap the dimmed transcript beside it (#drawer-scrim), or press the phone's back button.

What you see

A panel headed TABS, the search field under it, then one heading per project, Worktop first, and under each open heading one strip-style row per open tab. A heading shows the chevron, the project's name, its computer, a status dot while it is closed and a tab in it works or waits, the pencil that opens Edit project (not on Worktop), the tab count, its plus, and on an empty project other than Worktop the Remove cross. An open project ends with a darker row outlined in dots: a grey ring around a plus and New tab. An open project with two or more folders has one more line under its heading: a folder mark and the folders' names joined by ·. Each row starts with the agent's brand mark, as a strip tab does, then the tab's name (its title, else its folder, else tab), and, in Worktop only, the shortened full folder path under it, after a small folder mark and in a darker grey than the name, then · and the machine the tab runs on: this box's name, or in the app the box's name on your account, in bold, a shade lighter than the path. A third line says how the tab is doing and who runs it: the status dot and background-agent count, the model (Opus 5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol, or auto when the tab uses whatever the CLI is set to) and the effort after a · in the darker grey (high, or auto when none is set). The selected tab has the strip's fill and colour bar. Removing the Rename button gives the folder line more room; long paths still end in an ellipsis.

The tab you are in is highlighted. The transcript behind dims as the panel comes in, and one short vibration marks the moment the drawer commits.

Below 1080px of the frame's width the drawer is the same gesture at every width. From 1080px it is a 264px column on the left, under the row of buttons on top, with no scrim and no slide. Tabs then hides and shows the column and lights up while it shows; the choice is kept on this browser. See wide-layout.

Options and settings

Option	Default	What it changes
edge zone	the outer 10% of the frame's width	Where a touch starts the drawer instead of a tab swipe
open distance	36 px	How far in you must drag to open it
close distance	70 px	How far back you must drag to shut it
axis slop	9 px	Vertical drift before the touch is handed back to the scroller

Limits and known gaps

The Tabs button shows at every width. Below 1080 px it opens the drawer; click the dimmed area to close it. From 1080 px it is a switch for the column.
A docked column refuses the edge gesture, and the back button does not close it.
The drawer is a picker, not the manager. It has no folder move, closed-tab list or status line; those are in the strip or Threads sheet.
While a row is being dragged the panel refuses to close out from under it.
A finger that drifts more than 9 px down the screen before the drawer has picked its direction gives the touch back to the scroller, and the panel disappears again.