Erik is the founder of Cloud Posse and creator of Atmos. With over a decade of experience helping teams adopt Terraform at scale, he is passionate about open-source infrastructure tooling and developer experience.
Once a workspace has a few dozen repos and a few hundred stacks, clicking through the sidebar to find the one you want stops being a navigation pattern and starts being friction. The command palette replaces that with a single keystroke.
Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) anywhere in the dashboard. Start typing a repo name, a stack, a component, or an instance — the matching result appears at the top, and Enter takes you there. The same search index that powers the docs site (Orama, BM25 ranked) runs on your workspace data, so results show up as fast as you can type.
Click the star on any result to favorite it. Favorited items are weighted above raw text-match score, so the things you actually work with float to the top of every search. Favorites are remembered per workspace.
Repo favorites are shared with the sidebar — starring a repo in the palette is the same as starring it in the sidebar list, and the sidebar's prefetch order updates accordingly.
Filter results by kind using the chips below the search box: All, Repos, Stacks, Components, Instances, or Deployments. When All is selected, results group by kind so you can scan instead of read. Searching vpc under Deployments, for instance, jumps you straight to every dispatched run against the VPC component.
When the palette opens with an empty query, it shows your favorites first followed by recent repos as quick links — the same starting point a daily nav pattern needs.
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