feature: Add option to skip CLI instance selector

[iryan2]

Did you check the docs?

• I have read all the sidekick.nvim docs

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I only ever use Claude Code with sidekick, and I never want to attach to an existing instance of Claude Code.

I have remapped <Leader>aa to require("sidekick.cli").toggle({ name = "claude", focus = true }) as per the docs, which works perfectly when I don't have any other Claude Code instances running.

However, I often have multiple CC instances running, so my <Leader>aa mapping usually produces the selection screen with all my CC instances listed, more or less defeating the purpose of the custom mapping.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love it if I could configure sidekick such that my <Leader>aa mapping always directly opens a new instance of Claude Code in the sidebar, even when other instances of CC are active on my machine. In other words, I never want to see the CLI selection window when using this mapping.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered accepting the additional keypress, but if I did that I may as well remove my custom "direct to Claude Code" mapping as it's not saving me anything.

Additional context

You're the man Folke, love your work!!

[fenetikm]

Something like this @iryan2 ?
main...fenetikm:sidekick.nvim:work

Use it like this:

  require("sidekick.cli").toggle({ name = "claude", new = true })

[fenetikm]

On second thought, I think instead of a new key, maybe something like attach which you can then set to new or auto or select (the default) where auto would somehow automatically attach to, say, an already running agent in a tmux split and new would do the thing that you want. I think I'll have a go at doing that in my repo.

[iryan2]

@fenetikm Oh right I tried adding keybinding for the code snippet in your first reply and wondered why it didn't work 🤪

Would it still be useful if I checked out your branch? Or are you more interested in pursuing the second approach?

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