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Around the conversation, Mibyan Desktop gives you the tools you would otherwise open separately: files, git, terminals, a live preview, and a browser. You can show, hide, and rearrange them.

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The right sidebar

Open or close it with Cmd/Ctrl with J. It holds these panes:
Browse the working directory without leaving the app.
  • Open folder and Change working directory set where the agent works. Over a remote connection you pick a folder on the connected backend.
  • Refresh tree and Collapse all folders keep it tidy.
  • Add to chat puts a file or folder in the composer as context.
  • The file menu offers Reveal in Finder / File Explorer, Copy Path, Copy Relative Path, Download, Rename, and Delete. Deleting moves the file to the Trash, so you can restore it.
Select a file to preview it beside the chat.

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Preview and the in-app browser

When the agent builds a page or starts a dev server, it opens in a preview pane beside the chat. Cmd/Ctrl with Shift and L opens the in-app browser at any time.

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Previewing files

A file preview has three views: Source, Preview (rendered), and Diff. Details:
  • Large files show only the first 512 KB, with Preview anyway for the rest. Binary-looking files warn you first.
  • A file with no inline preview (a type Mibyan cannot render) can still be attached as context.
  • Click Edit to change a file right in the pane. If the file changed on disk in the meantime you choose Overwrite or Discard and reload.
  • Cmd/Ctrl-click a link in the chat to open it in the preview pane. Selecting source lines lets you drag them to the composer.

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Previewing web apps

If a preview address points at the machine running your agent (for example a remote dev server on localhost), it cannot load on your computer. Use a port forward or a reachable hostname. The app explains this when it happens.

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The in-app browser

A real browser pane for the agent and for you. Right-click a link to Open in in-app browser or Open in external browser. /browser connect, /browser disconnect, and /browser status manage the browser connection for the agent (local gateway only). Rich embeds such as YouTube or X posts load from third-party sites. Settings, Appearance, Inline Embeds lets you choose Ask (a placeholder until you allow each service), Always, or Off (plain links).

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Artifacts

Everything the agent generates is collected in Artifacts (from the sidebar). Tabs: All, Images, Files, and Links. Search, page through, and open any item, or copy its URL or path. Each row links back to the chat that made it. In a conversation, a generated item shows as a card labeled Code, Interactive page, or Graphic, with a version count. Opening it shows v N of M, with older and newer versions, Latest, Copy content, Download, and Open in browser. If an artifact is no longer in the local registry, it says so.

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Arrange your workspace

The window is made of zones you can rearrange, each with tabs.
  • Layout editor (titlebar) lets you pick a template (Columns, Rows, Grid, Priority), or drag panes between zones. In the zone editor, click to split, flip a split, drag across zones to merge, and drag shared edges to resize.
  • Save the current arrangement as a template and name it. Reset returns to the default.
  • Tab strip shows tabs above a zone. In Settings, Appearance choose Auto (hidden when a zone has one pane), Always, or Never. Cmd/Ctrl with Alt and T toggles it.
  • Swap sidebar sides (Cmd/Ctrl with a backslash) flips left and right.
  • Close tab (Cmd/Ctrl with W) and Reopen closed tab (with Shift and T) work like a browser. Closing a chat that is still working only hides it. The session keeps its progress and reopens from the sidebar.
  • Find in page is Cmd/Ctrl with F.

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HUD mode

HUD mode is a chrome-free floating chat. The app window steps aside and a composer and live reply float over whatever you are working in, so you can ask Mibyan without switching apps.
  • Toggle it with Cmd/Ctrl with Shift and H, or the HUD mode button in the titlebar.
  • The reply lingers briefly so you can read it, then fades. Keeping focus in the composer keeps it open.
  • Reset HUD size and position recovers a lost window.
  • A global shortcut can move the HUD to your pointer while it is open.

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Quick entry

Quick Entry summons a small composer from anywhere with a global shortcut, so you can fire a prompt without opening Mibyan. Turn it on and set the shortcut in Settings, Quick Entry. The shortcut needs at least one modifier key, for example CommandOrControl+Shift+Space, and the settings tell you if another app already uses it.

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The memory graph

The memory graph (also /journey) shows the skills and memories Mibyan has built for your work, as a map over time. Filter by All, Used, or Learned, switch between the Graph and a timeline, and refresh. It starts empty and fills as Mibyan learns. Share map copies a code that contains only the layout, never your memory or skill text. Paste someone else’s code to load their map, and Back to my map returns to yours.

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Pets

A pet is an animated mascot that floats over the app and reacts to what Mibyan is doing: running while tools execute, celebrating on success, sulking on errors.
  • Turn it on with /pet, or in Settings, Appearance, Pet. /pet list browses the gallery.
  • Choose a pet and it installs and becomes active. You can rename, export, uninstall, or delete generated pets.
  • Size and Roam control how big it is and whether it wanders while idle.
  • /hatch opens the pet generator: describe a pet, draft four looks, Remix one, then Adopt it. Generation runs in the background and notifies you when done.

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Make it yours

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Find anything

  • Command palette (Cmd/Ctrl with K or P) searches chats, views, and actions, opens folders as projects, starts a chat in a project or branch, and changes theme or color mode.
  • Command Center (Cmd/Ctrl with .) opens the system view: sessions, gateway status and logs, usage over time, and maintenance.
  • Status bar (toggle with Cmd/Ctrl with Shift and S) shows the model, approval mode, gateway health, running agents, cron, webhooks, memory graph, a context meter, turn and session timers, and version. Choose which items appear from its menu.

Next: connections and profiles

Point the app at a local, remote, SSH, or Mibyan Cloud gateway, and manage profiles.