Command palette

The Ctrl/Cmd+K palette for jumping anywhere in the workspace

The command palette is a keyboard-first jump-to surface for navigating the workspace and triggering a small set of actions, without leaving the keyboard or scanning the sidebar.

It complements the sidebar and breadcrumbs: pick the sidebar when you want to browse what's available, the palette when you already know where you're going.

How to open it

There are two ways to open the palette, and both produce the same UI:

• The search pill in the top-right of the application bar — labelled Search… with a small ⌘K / Ctrl+K hint chip on its right.

• The keyboard shortcut:

  • macOS — ⌘ + K

  • Windows / Linux — Ctrl + K

The shortcut works from any page in the app — there's no need to focus the search button first.

The palette is not available to third-party users (representatives logging into the auditee surface). It's an internal-user tool — the search pill and shortcut are simply not wired up on that surface.

What's inside

Open the palette and you'll see a search input over two grouped lists:

Navigation

Every destination reachable from the sidebar — Domains, Audits, Risks, Applied controls, Insights, and so on, including the My profile entry. Type to filter; matching is case- and accent-insensitive substring search, so framework matches whether you type framework, FRAMEWORK, or Framework, and on a French instance controles matches Contrôles. Selecting a row navigates there and closes the palette.

The list is automatically pruned by the same feature-flag visibility that hides sidebar sections — if your instance has the privacy module disabled, Processings and Personal data never show up in the palette either.

Actions

A small group of non-navigation commands. Today it contains:

• Open assistant — opens the chat assistant. Visible only when the chat_mode feature flag is on.

More actions are expected here over time — the palette is designed to host shortcut commands that don't fit the sidebar.

Keyboard controls

While the palette is open:

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Move selection between rows
↵ (Enter)	Open the selected row
Esc	Close the palette
Click outside	Close the palette

If the typed text doesn't match any row in Navigation or Actions, pressing ↵ falls through to universal search: the palette closes, and the search results page opens with your query pre-filled. There's also an explicit Press Enter to search across all objects button rendered below the empty state — same outcome, just clickable.

Why use it

• Faster than the sidebar for "I know what I want" navigation — three keys (⌘K, then a few letters, then ↵) versus reach-for-the-mouse and scroll.

• Discovery — typing the start of a name surfaces destinations you may have forgotten existed, including any pages added by a recent platform upgrade.

• Search escape hatch — when the typed text isn't a page name, the palette is also the front door to the universal search over your actual data (assets, audits, controls, evidences, …).

Related

• Universal search — the search results page reached by typing a query and pressing Enter.

• Feature flags — what controls which Navigation and Actions entries show up.