One box that finds everything.

The switcher is kolu’s unified search surface. Press Cmd/Ctrl + K and type — a branch, a repo, a host, a command — without first deciding which drawer to open. Terminals, hosts, and commands share one index and one muscle memory; the extra chords are deep links into scoped views of the same surface, not separate apps.

What opens at the root

At the empty root you see:

1. Recent — the three terminals you were just in (client visit trail — last time each tile became active), interleaved across every connected host — except the tile that is already active. Rank is max(your last visit, server activity), so a fresh browser still orders by agent/output clocks until you navigate; after that your own trail wins over background chatter. Cross-host rows show the same host chip as search hits. Because the active tile is omitted and selection starts on the first Recent row, ⌘K then Enter toggles between your last two terminals (including across hosts).
2. Hosts — every machine in the pool (when more than local is configured), quiet when healthy; active only for the canvas host.
3. Terminals section — the Terminals group (⌘⇧K) and New terminal.
4. Further command sections — Active Terminal, Canvas, UI, Help — as usual, not collapsed into a single “Commands” band until you type.

Type to search across every kind at once. Matching is multi-token: every whitespace-separated word must appear somewhere in the row’s corpus (repo, branch, intent, agent, cwd, host label, command name…). Token order does not matter — kolu auth finds the same row as auth kolu.

Terminals across every connected host

The switcher indexes live top-level terminals on every connected host in the padi pool — not only the machine whose canvas you are viewing. Split children (terminals with a parent) are omitted: activating the parent tile brings its splits with it, same as the Dock.

• Plain shells appear (no agent required), with the same state pip language as the Dock (shell mark / idle paint).
• Order is fleet-wide max(visit, activity) (visit = last time you made the tile active; activity is the Dock’s reprojected clock). Parked rows the activity window would hide are dropped here too.
• Cross-host rows carry one host chip in the right rail — the same identity hue + connection-status language as the chrome-bar host strip — so srid@builder vs local is obvious without repeating the name in the context line. Selecting one switches the canvas to that host and activates the terminal in one step.

Browse Terminals: flat list, host-grouped headers

⌘⇧K → Terminals shows every connected host’s terminals immediately — no host drill required. The list is visually grouped under small-caps headers (local · 3 terminals, zest · 6 terminals); active host’s group is first; within a group, recency order. Hosts with zero terminals still get a header so the fleet map is complete.

Host-scoping is optional. Click a host header (or use the dock search icon) to narrow to that host; the breadcrumb becomes Commands › Terminals › zest. Backspace on an empty query pops a level.

Typing filters the whole list flat across every host (host chips still mark foreign rows). At the root, the same multi-token match finds terminals without entering Terminals first.

The active host’s Dock remains the always-on navigator for the machine you are looking at; the switcher is the jump path over the whole fleet.

How results rank

With a non-empty query, hits are ordered by kind first, not by how close the string match is:

Priority	Kind	Tie-break
1	Terminals	Recency — max(last client visit, server/Dock activity)
2	Hosts	Pool order
3	Commands	Existing section order

So a branch name outranks a host that happens to share a substring, and both outrank a command. There are no prefix sigils (> commands, @ hosts) — scoping is the existing drill-in path (below), not a mode character.

Deep-link chords

Chord / control	Opens
Mod + K	Root — search everything
Mod + Shift + K	Terminals — all hosts’ terminals under host headers
Dock search icon	Terminals › active host — only that machine’s terminals
Mod + Shift + H	Hosts — same host rows as root (switch canvas host)

Mod is Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Linux and Windows. The full chord table lives under Keyboard shortcuts.

Scoped views

Deep links do not leave the switcher — they drill in. Breadcrumbs show the path; Backspace on an empty query (or the breadcrumb) pops one level back to root. Escape closes the whole surface.

Terminals (⌘⇧K / dock search)

⌘⇧K lands on Terminals with every connected host already expanded under headers — type to filter, or click a header to scope. The dock search icon opens Terminals › the host you are viewing (host-scoped). Selecting a row switches host if needed and activates the terminal.

Hosts (⌘⇧H)

⌘⇧H opens the Hosts scope — the same host rows as the root index (one source of truth; there is no separate “Switch host” list). Selecting a host re-keys the canvas with no reload — same as the host strip.

Host status text is quiet by default:

Condition	Context text
Canvas’s current host	active
Connected, not active	(none — connected is the default)
Warming / failed / removed	connecting / unreachable / removed

The connection dot still carries health color on every row.

Reading a row

Every result kind paints the same four slots so a mixed list stays scannable:

1. Lead — agent-state pip (terminal; plain shells get the shell mark), connection dot (host), or glyph (command).
2. Identity — for terminals, the same headline as the Dock: repo colour eyebrow + intent first line when one is set, otherwise the branch. Host rows show user@host; commands show the command name. Matched tokens bold in place.
3. Context — one truncating line. When the identity is the intent, the branch sits here; otherwise agent summary / foreground (Dock subline). Host status or command description for other kinds. Never carries the host name on a terminal row.
4. Right rail — host chip (only when the terminal is on a non-active host — hue ring + label), recency, keybind, drill chevron, and a kind tag (term / host / cmd) only at the mixed root.

What this is not

• The dock is still the always-visible navigator down the left edge — glanceable without opening anything. The switcher is the jump / search path over the same terminal set.
• The host strip is still ambient multi-host status; ⌘K does not replace it.
• Sleep, restore, and session memory live under Sessions; the switcher only finds terminals that already exist on connected hosts.

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