Batuta Search

Batuta Search is Maestri's command palette: one keyboard-first surface to search, navigate, and act anywhere in the app. The name nods to the batuta, a conductor's baton, fitting for the "conductor of agents". It's the fastest way to jump to a terminal, note, portal, or workspace, run a command, or message an agent without touching the mouse.

Opening and closing

Press P to open it over the canvas, and P again, Esc, or a click outside to dismiss. Dismissing without running anything returns focus to wherever you were. Rebind it in Settings → Shortcuts, or open it from View → Batuta Search.

Searching

Type to filter. Search is fuzzy, case-insensitive, and accent-insensitive, so "cafe" finds "Café". It matches a result's name, type, workspace, and keyword aliases; for notes and text blocks it searches the full body too, so you can find a note by something buried deep inside it.

Add words to narrow down. If you keep a Claude agent running in both your web and api projects, typing claude api brings the right one to the top of the results, which is how you tell apart same-named terminals. Best matches rank first, your current workspace gets a boost, name beats body, and the matched characters are bolded.

Jumping to anything

Batuta Search indexes everything across every workspace and floor: terminals, notes, text blocks, files, links, file trees, portals, and workspaces themselves. Pick a result and it takes you there, switching workspace or floor and panning the canvas as needed. Notes open in edit mode; terminals and portals get keyboard focus.

Running actions

Clear the query and Batuta Search lists the actions available right now.

Global actions are always there: create a terminal, note, portal, workspace, or floor; Ask or Check an agent (below); open Routines; toggle Ombro or the sidebar; open the workspace in your IDE; save it; and zoom or switch between workspaces.

Contextual actions appear at the top when a single node is selected, scoped to its type, like Edit, Reload, Unload, and Delete on a terminal, or Copy Contents, Connect to…, and Disconnect… on a sticky note.

Ask and Check

These run as short in-palette flows, so you stay on the keyboard.

• Ask… messages any terminal, anywhere. Type a multi-line message (⇧Enter for a new line) and send. A live preview lets you watch it respond; press Enter to jump to that terminal, or Esc to pick another. The agent keeps running whether you stay or not.
• Check… is the read-only version: pick a terminal, watch its live output, and press Enter to jump to it.

Both reach across workspaces without switching, so you can poke an agent elsewhere and stay put.

Connecting nodes

With a single connectable node selected, you can wire it up without dragging. Connect to… lists valid targets (same-floor notes, terminals, and portals, plus terminals on other floors) and makes the link; Disconnect… shows up when there's already a connection to remove. It complements drag-to-connect, it doesn't replace it.

Keyboard reference

• ↑ / ↓ move the selection
• Enter runs the selected item or advances a flow
• Esc steps back one level instead of closing everything
• P closes the palette
• In Ask: Enter sends, ⇧Enter adds a newline, Enter jumps to the terminal