Talk to an agent in a pane

Each pane in the terminal tab is a live Claude Code session running in that agent’s home folder.

Opening one

Click an agent in the terminal tab. If no session is open, the board starts one; otherwise you attach to the open one.

A pane outlives its ticket and the engine that dispatched it; only the board closing ends it.

The one pane that opens itself

A workspace the wizard has just created has empty queues, and the board comes up with the panel already open on the agent that takes requests. That session is handed one opening turn, so it speaks first and asks what you want built, then interviews you and writes the ticket. It is the only page load that starts a session, it happens once, and it happens because you pressed create workspace a reload earlier. Reloading the board afterwards opens nothing.

The agent stops opening conversations as soon as anything is queued, and what it says lives in its brief (.agents/<agent>/<agent>-agent.md), not in torta.

Typing into it

Two ways in:

• keystrokes, delivered raw and unsubmitted: Esc is a keystroke, not three characters of text
• a paste, delivered as a bracketed paste plus Enter, the only way a multi-line prompt survives a box that submits on newline

The engine pastes a ticket into a live pane; a fresh session gets it as a command line argument.

The dock

The panel docks left, right or bottom. The splitter resizes it between 30 and 60 percent of the window; a toggle takes it to 90 percent.

Reconnecting

The page pings its socket every 15 seconds and treats 40 seconds of silence as a dead link. On a dropped transport it re-attaches to the same terminal, backing off through 400ms, 900ms, 2s, 4s, 8s and then 15s.

Three close codes mean the session is over. None is retried:

Code	Meaning
1000	the board closed the pane deliberately
4404	there is no session for this agent
4500	a pane could not be opened

Every retry is attach-only. Only your click may spawn a session.

Permission mode

Pane sessions run in permission mode auto. The generated wall decides what the agent may touch; you are asked only about what it names neither way.

When the board restarts

There is no reattach across restarts: every pane closes with the board. Click an agent to open a fresh one.

Where it does not work

A pane needs a pseudo-terminal, and the board reports what this machine supports. The terminal is vendored, so nothing is fetched from a CDN at runtime.