Explode mode
Cmd+Shift+E. Everything disappears except your open tasks at full width. For when you have six agents running and zero patience for chrome.
Explode mode is a single keyboard shortcut — Cmd+Shift+E — that hides every piece of SlayZone UI except the tasks you currently have open. The sidebar, board, project switcher, status rails, and search bar all disappear. What remains is a tiled grid of live task panels at full width: terminals, browsers, editors, and agent output.
The feature exists because supervising five or six parallel coding agents is fundamentally different from triaging a backlog. Once tasks are running, the board becomes secondary. What you actually need is dense, simultaneous visibility into in-flight terminals — which agent is blocked, which one finished, which one is hallucinating tests. Explode mode prioritizes that view over everything else.
The shortcut is reversible: press Cmd+Shift+E again and the full UI returns with every panel and selection preserved. It is designed for short, intense supervision sessions rather than as a permanent layout. Many operators flip in and out of it dozens of times an hour as they cycle between board planning and active coordination.
It pairs naturally with the attention panel and terminal state machine: even with chrome hidden, agents that need human input still surface visibly. Combined, they cut the cost of running many agents from "constant polling" down to "respond when something pings."
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