[KinanLak]

Problem

With a pull request open in the right panel or on the Pull requests page, opening it in the browser means going through the … menu → "Open on GitHub". The panel already has shortcuts to copy the PR link (mod+shift+c) and number (mod+shift+k), but none to open it.

Change

• New pullRequest.openOnHost keybinding command, bound by default to mod+shift+o with when: "pullRequestPanelActive && !terminalFocus". It calls the same shell.openExternal(url) as the menu item, and the menu item now shows the shortcut. It is rebindable in Settings as "Pull Request: Open in Browser".
• mod+shift+o is already a second default for chat.new, so the new binding only applies while a PR is the active right panel surface. The PR panel resolves its shortcuts with pullRequestPanelActive: true; nothing else sets that variable, so mod+shift+o still starts a new chat everywhere else.
• Existing keybindings.json files already contain chat.new on mod+shift+o. The server backfills new defaults before persisted rules, so that persisted rule would always win. The panel therefore resolves against only the pullRequest.* bindings (pullRequestPanelKeybindings), so its own shortcuts win while it is active. Without this, the shortcut only works on fresh installs.
• User docs: the "Copy pull request references" section now mentions the shortcut.

Scope and approval

This is a new shortcut, so it needs maintainer approval. Proposal: #33882. The PR stays a draft until the direction is approved, and I'm happy to change the default key or leave it unbound.

Verification

• apps/web/src/keybindings.test.ts: the existing "older server bindings" case now also checks that, with a persisted config lacking the new command, mod+shift+o resolves to pullRequest.openOnHost in the PR panel and to chat.new elsewhere. The panel assertion fails without the pullRequest.* filter.
• Web dev server, Pull requests page with fix(server): MCP tool descriptions state the real full-access gate #28799 open in the right panel:
  • Ctrl+Shift+O called window.open("https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/28799") and did not create a chat.
  • With the right panel closed, Ctrl+Shift+O created a new draft thread as before.
• Not checked: the desktop app (it uses the same shell.openExternal bridge as the existing menu item) and the right panel in the chat view (same PullRequestDetailPanel component and listener).
• vp run check:changed passes.

Before	After

Made with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running inside T3 Code.