# The workbench > The desktop app's eight destinations — Work, Files, Changes, Genome, My tools, Costs & usage, Settings, Help — what lives in each, and how to navigate them.  *Eight destinations, each with its own sections and its own back history. Nothing is a drawer.* The [desktop app](/docs/surfaces/desktop) is one window with eight destinations. Chat is one of them. Everything that used to be a drawer — keys, MCP, skills, routines, the advice ledger — is a page inside a destination, with a breadcrumb, a back button, and a URL-like location that survives a reload. `/workbench` (alias `/cockpit`) opens it. `Cmd/Ctrl+K` reaches any page by name. ## The eight destinations | Destination | What it holds | |-------------|---------------| | **Work** | The conversation. Tabs, composer, tool rail, the [Primordial Deep](/docs/surfaces/desktop#the-primordial-deep) docked or fullscreen | | **Files** | The file browser and tree, with diff preview and Monaco editing | | **Changes** | What this session wrote, the working tree, and [checkpoints](/docs/tools/checkpoints) | | **Genome** | The [code graph](/docs/concepts/genome) — symbols, blast radius, co-changes | | **My tools** | [Cells](/docs/tools/morphs), [skills](/docs/tools/skills), [agents](/docs/tools/agents), MCP, permissions, and the five engine surfaces | | **Costs & usage** | The [cost ledger](/docs/concepts/cost-tracking), [model calls](/docs/concepts/model-events), and metrics | | **Settings** | Appearance, models and accounts, code and context, system | | **Help** | Guides, diagnostics, session status, feedback | A Cell can claim a ninth: `workspace.tab` opens a cell extension as a real peer of Work and My tools, with the same navigation and history. See [Cells & Morphs](/docs/tools/morphs). ## My tools | Section | What it is | |---------|-----------| | Morphs | Installed cells, their surfaces, and per-cell agent access | | Skills | Search, install, load, and remove [skills](/docs/tools/skills) | | Agents | Custom [agent definitions](/docs/tools/agents) — project and global | | Agent runs | Every dispatch and background agent, live | | MCP connections | Project and global [MCP servers](/docs/tools/mcp) with live status | | Permissions & reach | Hooks, the tool catalog, privacy globs | The **Engine** group underneath is the cockpit for everything that keeps running when a turn ends: | Section | What it is | |---------|-----------| | Orchestration | [Graph runs](/docs/tools/side-agents#orchestrator) — nodes, gates, tokens | | Routines | [Scheduled runs](/docs/tools/routines) and their history | | Background jobs | Shell jobs started with `background: true` — logs, status, stop | | Rooms | The [agent link](/docs/agents/cross-tab) — who is talking to whom | | Advice | The per-tab [advisor](/docs/tools/side-agents#advisor) ledger | ## Settings Four groups, in order: | Group | Sections | |-------|----------| | **Appearance** | Theme, Window & layout, Preferences, Language | | **Models & accounts** | Models & routing, Accounts & keys, Subscriptions, Provider options, Proxy | | **Code & context** | Code intelligence, Context & compaction, Web search, Language servers, Syntax highlighting | | **System** | Addons, Storage, Remote access ([Hearth](/docs/tools/hearth)) | Every field maps to a key in [the configuration reference](/docs/reference/configuration). The desktop writes the same `config.json` the CLI reads, so a setting changed here is a setting changed for the terminal. ## Changes, usage, help - **Changes** — *Session changes* is what the agent wrote in this session, per tab. *Working tree & Git* stages, unstages, and commits with click-to-preview diffs. *Checkpoints* restores a [checkpoint](/docs/tools/checkpoints). - **Costs & usage** — the running ledger, then *Model calls* (every request, its latency, and its finish reason) and *Metrics*. - **Help** — guides, *Diagnostics* (the same checks as `doctor`), *Session status*, and *Send feedback*. ## Navigation Destinations keep their own history. Back returns to where you were inside that destination, not to the last thing you clicked anywhere. Switching workspace clears the previous root, so back never lands you in a repo you closed. Breadcrumb, page title, and search result all read one identity table (`workbench-sections.ts`) — a page cannot show one icon in the crumb and another in its own heading. ## Next #### Desktop app The window, tabs, browser, and the Primordial Deep. #### Configuration Every setting behind the Settings destination.