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Prompts in TIDE

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C-q P, or P in the project pane, opens the prompts tab: every question the project’s Claude Code agents wait on, a permission, a trust question or a choice their model asks, answered from one place. With several agents and plan tasks running, no question waits unseen in a tab you are not looking at. It is wdx prompt on a screen that keeps itself current; the CLI side is in Agents.

The list, one row per agent with a question open:

┬─[● planner(-)]─[? prompts 2(-)]───────────────────────[⤢]─┐
▸ fix-readme yes/no Bash command · go test ./...
planner decision Which store keeps the sessions?

Enter opens a question on its own screen:

┬─[● planner(-)]─[? prompts 2(-)]───────────────────────[⤢]─┐
‹ prompts · planner · decision · 2 of 2
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
Which store keeps the sessions?
❯ 1. (•) SQLite
2. ( ) Files
3. ( ) Type something.
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4. Chat about this

The tab’s title counts the questions waiting, [? prompts 2(-)], and reads [prompts(-)] with none; the list then says no prompts.

Key What it does
C-q P, P in the project pane open the tab, or go to it
↑ ↓ move through the questions, or through a question’s options
Enter on a row open its question
Enter on an option answer it: a yes/no or a single choice, a Type something with your text, or Chat about this
Space or Enter in a checkbox list tick or untick the option
Enter on Submit send the boxes ticked
a digit move to that option, never answering
typing, on Type something your answer; in a checkbox list typing ticks it
o open the agent’s tab without answering
Esc back to the list, keeping what you did
- close the tab
  • Your own cursor. The cursor, the ticks and your text are TIDE’s: the agent’s own cursor does not move while you look, and the answer goes in one go once you send it.
  • Never a question you did not see. wdx presses the keys in the agent’s terminal one at a time, checking each, and only while its screen still shows the question you answered. If it changed, nothing more is pressed and the tab says not answered: the prompt changed before it was; a question that changes while open is drawn again with changed, and one that closes leaves the screen.
  • Checkboxes send only on Submit, so an Enter meant as a tick never sends; Submit with nothing ticked sends nothing and says so.
  • Several questions in one decision come one at a time, with Claude Code’s tab line above them. Each but the last is sent as you answer it, as Claude Code shows only its current question and submits nothing before its review; after the last comes the tab’s review, every question with its answer, then Submit answers and Back to the questions. Only Submit answers sends them.
  • Chat about this declines the questions and takes you to the agent’s tab, to talk it over.
  • Claude Code only. Its questions are the ones wdx reads, so other AI CLIs’ agents never show here: answer them in their own tab.
  • Kept across restarts, as the other tabs are, one per project.
  • Private. Nothing TIDE or wdx logs holds a question, an option or what you typed.