The app

The terminal

The key bar, copy and paste, and a few commands to know.

Every session in Horus is a terminal: a screen of text where you type and the computer answers. Your phone's keyboard is missing a few keys that terminals need, so Horus adds a key bar above it.

The key bar

Key	What it does
`ESC`	Escape. Cancels things, and in many agents stops what they're doing.
`TAB`	Completes a file or command name as you type. Press it often.
`CTRL` `ALT`	Sticky modifiers: tap CTRL, then a letter. CTRL then C sends Ctrl-C.
`←` `↑` `↓` `→`	Move the cursor, pick from menus, and scroll back through commands you've run (↑).
`END`	Jump to the end of the line.
`/` `-`	Shortcuts for two characters you type all the time in commands.
`SHOW`	Shows or hides the phone keyboard (the key then says HIDE).
`RETURN`	Enter. Runs the command or sends your message.

Ctrl shortcuts worth knowing

Press	To
`CTRL` then `C`	Stop the running command.
`CTRL` then `D`	Exit the shell or program (end of input).
`CTRL` then `L`	Clear the screen.
`CTRL` then `R`	Search commands you've run before.

Links

You can tap links in the terminal. For safety, only some open: pages on your own phone (localhost, like a dev server), and GitHub, Anthropic, Claude, OpenAI, ChatGPT and OpenCode sites for signing in. Other links don't open when tapped.

Your first commands

Never used a terminal? These cover most of what you'll do by hand. Try them in Bare terminal.

Horus terminal

# where am I?
pwd
# list what's here
ls
# go into a folder, and back up one level
cd my-app
cd ..
# make a folder
mkdir notes
# show a file
cat README.md
# what changed in this project?
git status

Folder	What's there
`/workspace/projects`	Your projects. Shared by every agent and the shell.
`~`	Your home folder (the shell's settings and history). Each agent has its own.

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