The prompt you run twenty times a daydeserves its own key
A saved prompt you have to go and find is still a detour. Khint puts your AI actions behind the keyboard: one shortcut opens the palette anywhere, five pinned actions answer to a number, and the agent you lean on hardest can take a key of its own and skip the palette entirely.
A menu is not
muscle memory
The cost of a prompt is not the seconds the model takes. It is the switch: leave the ticket, find the tab, find the prompt, paste, wait, copy, come back. Do that six times before lunch and the tool starts feeling like work. The fix is not a better prompt library, it is a shorter path to it. Khint treats your saved actions the way an editor treats its commands: one key opens them, the ones you use most answer to a single press, and the heaviest hitters get bound directly so they never appear in a list at all.
Four layers, from browsing to reflex
One palette key, five numbered pins, a self-sorting list, and direct bindings.
One shortcut is the door
Cmd+Shift+K (Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows) opens the Khint palette on top of whatever you were doing: the tracker, the doc, the browser. You never leave the app you are working in, and you never hunt for a menu bar icon. The palette is scoped to your active pack, so what it offers is already narrowed to the job you are on.
Pin the five you actually live in
Pin an action and it floats to a Pinned section at the top of the list with a numbered slot. Now the gesture is not “open, read, aim, click”: it is shortcut, then a digit. Khint caps pinning at five on purpose. Five is the number of prompts a hand can learn by position, and a pin list of twenty is just the long list again with extra steps.
Let the list learn the rest for you
Below the pins, the palette sorts itself. Actions you ran in the last week sit under Recent, most recent first; the older ones fall to Frequent. Nothing to configure and nothing to maintain: the prompt you used an hour ago is near the top because you used it an hour ago. On a fresh install, before there is any history to learn from, the list is simply alphabetical.
Give your heaviest agent a key of its own
For the one prompt you run twenty times a day, the palette is still a stop on the way. Open the agent in Agents, press the combo you want into the shortcut recorder, and that binding runs the agent straight on your selected text: no palette, no picking. The result pastes back where you were. Khint checks the combo against your settings and your other agents first, and tells you what already holds it.
Bind the routine, not just the step
A shortcut that saves one prompt is nice. A shortcut that saves a sequence is the point. In Workflows, a chain runs up to five steps in series, agent steps plus integration writes where you have connected a tool, and it takes a Shortcutof its own right next to its name. “Clean the notes, draft the ticket, file it in Jira” stops being four moves and becomes one.
Type when the list gets long
Muscle memory covers the top of the list; typing covers the tail. Inside the palette, / or Cmd+F jumps to the search box and filters every row as you type. And when what you want is not a saved prompt but a sentence, the idea bar at the top of the palette takes the request in plain words instead.
A product owner's day, in keystrokes
Standup ends. You select the notes still sitting in your scratchpad and press the combo bound to “Notes to ticket”: no palette opens, the draft comes back in place. Mid-morning a stakeholder asks for a status line, so this time you open the palette and press 2, the slot where “Status update” is pinned. After refinement you run the whole filing routine on its workflow shortcut: clean the notes, draft the ticket, push it to Jira, one press. Late afternoon you need something you have run maybe twice, so you open the palette, hit /, and type three letters to find it. Four different depths of access, none of which involved leaving the window you were already in. Pair any of them with an active Memory session and the same keystroke also carries the context of what you have been working on all day.
Why one palette instead of twenty bindings
You could, in theory, bind every action to its own combo. In practice a keyboard runs out of room long before your prompt library does, and the combos you invent at the far end are ones you will never recall. So Khint splits the difference: the palette holds everything behind one key you cannot forget, pinning gives the top five a positional shortcut you do not have to invent, and direct bindings are reserved for the handful worth spending real key space on. When even a combo is too much ceremony, an agent can take voice as its input instead: hold its shortcut, say the thing, release.
Common questions
How do I run an AI prompt with a keyboard shortcut?
Two ways, and you will use both. Press Cmd+Shift+K (Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows) to open the Khint palette over whatever app you are in, then pick the action. Or open an agent in the Agents editor, record a shortcut of its own, and that combo runs the agent directly on your selected text without the palette appearing at all. The first is for browsing, the second is for the two or three prompts you run all day.
How many prompts can I pin, and what do the numbers mean?
Up to five. A pinned action floats to a Pinned section at the top of the palette and carries a numbered slot, so once the palette is open you press that number instead of aiming at a row. The cap is deliberate: five is what a hand remembers. Everything past five is better served by the Recent and Frequent sections, or by the search box.
What happens if the shortcut I want is already taken?
The editor records the combo you press and checks it against your general settings and your other agents and workflows before you save. If it is already in use, Khint names what is holding it so you can pick another instead of discovering the clash later, mid-task.
Can a whole multi-step workflow sit behind one key?
Yes. A workflow has its own Shortcut field next to its name in the Workflows editor, so a chain of up to five steps (agent steps, and integration writes where you have connected a tool) runs on a single press. That is the difference between a shortcut that saves you a menu and one that saves you a routine.
Do I have to set any of this up to get started?
No. The palette shortcut works out of the box, and the list organizes itself: actions you used in the last week appear under Recent, older ones under Frequent, both ordered by when you last ran them. Pinning and per-agent shortcuts are what you add once you know which prompts you actually reach for.
Put your prompts under your fingers
Free with 300 credits a month, about 10 AI actions a day. No credit card. One shortcut, and the list is already sorted.