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Everyone learns Esc. These are the rest — all checked against Claude Code itself, not copied off a blog.

The three to learn first

If you remember nothing else.

  • Esc Esc
    Stop Claude mid-action The moment Claude starts doing something you did not intend.
  • Esc thenEsc Esc thenEsc
    Clear the input box Your half-written prompt has turned into a mess and you want a clean line.
  • Shift +Tab Shift +Tab
    Cycle permission mode Starting an exploration (plan) or letting an agreed plan run (accept edits). On older Windows setups without VT mode, this is Meta+M instead.

Writing the prompt

Composing, searching, pasting.

  • Ctrl +J Ctrl +J
    Start a new line without sending Any prompt longer than one sentence.
  • Ctrl +R Ctrl +R
    Search your prompt history "What did I type last week that worked?" Inside the search, Ctrl+S cycles the scope: this session → this project → everywhere.
  • Ctrl +S Ctrl +S
    Park the half-written prompt You are three sentences into a prompt and need to go check something.
  • Ctrl +G Ctrl +G
    Edit the prompt in your real editor Writing anything long or carefully structured.
  • Ctrl +V Alt +V
    Paste an image Anything visual. Annotate the screenshot first and it works even better. Ctrl+V, not Cmd+V — macOS keeps Cmd+V for its own paste. Windows and WSL use Alt+V. On WSL both Ctrl+V and Alt+V work.
  • Option +T Alt +T
    Toggle thinking for the next turn One hard question in the middle of otherwise simple work.
  • Ctrl +_ Ctrl +_
    Undo in the input box You deleted half a prompt by accident.

Seeing what happened

What Claude did and what it plans to do.

  • Ctrl +O Ctrl +O
    Toggle the full transcript You want to know what it actually did, not the summary.
  • Ctrl +T Ctrl +T
    Toggle the task checklist Any multi-step task, before it gets far.

Running the session

Long jobs, models, the terminal.

  • Ctrl +B Ctrl +B
    Send the running job to the background A long build, test run, or search you do not want to sit and watch.
  • Option +P Alt +P
    Switch model Between tasks — rarely a good idea mid-task.
  • Option +O Alt +O
    Toggle fast mode Straightforward work where you would rather have speed than depth.
  • Ctrl +Z Ctrl +Z
    Step out to the shell without quitting You need the terminal for one command and do not want to lose the session. Terminal-level shortcut (Unix SIGTSTP), not a Claude Code binding. Windows has no direct equivalent.

The keys are the same on both systems — only the modifier's name changes (macOS calls Alt Option). Run /keybindings in any session to see exactly what is bound on your machine.

diagram-design — real diagrams, not boxes with drop shadows

← Skills From the community

Slash command /diagram-design

real diagrams, not boxes with drop shadows

Roughly forty diagram types — flowcharts, swimlanes, org charts, Gantt, sequence, ER, Sankey, Wardley maps — produced as self-contained HTML with inline SVG. It can also learn your brand colours once and apply them to everything it draws afterwards.

beginner ⏱ ~1-2 hours per diagram View source ↗

This is the one on this page most likely to be useful to a colleague who never opens a for anything else.

Describe the process. Get a diagram. It comes back as a single self-contained HTML file — inline SVG and CSS, no dependencies — which means it opens in any browser, survives being emailed, and prints without falling apart.

What it covers

Roughly forty types, including the ones that actually come up in bank work: flowcharts, swimlanes, org charts, Gantt, sequence, state machines, ER and data , timelines, layer stacks, dependency graphs, user journeys, Sankey, fishbone, Wardley maps, and the ordinary chart family (bar, line, waterfall, scatter, treemap).

It will also redraw what you already have — hand it a .drawio, Mermaid .mmd or Excalidraw file and ask for it at a different size or level of detail.

Do the brand step once

The first time you run it in a it stops and asks whether to customise the style guide before drawing anything, rather than silently shipping a diagram in its default orange. You can point it at a website and let it pull the palette. Do this once and every later diagram in that project comes out on-brand.

Worth knowing

  • It is deliberately opinionated. The author’s stated position is no drop shadows and no Mermaid-default look. If you want the house style of your existing deck, do the brand step.
  • Version and scope drift. The ’s own description lists around forty types and the blurb says thirty-eight — the count moves as types are added. Don’t quote a number in a deck; open it and look.
  • Not just . The same repo publishes Codex and Copilot installs, if a colleague is on a different tool.

Access

Public — no access request needed. MIT licensed.

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document-skills — Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files

The four document that power Claude's own file creation — `docx`, `xlsx`, `pptx` and `pdf`. Claude stops handing you to reformat and produces the actual Office file, with working formulas, real headings, and page numbers where they belong.