Ctrl+X Ctrl+R Reload

Reload the cx session with a keystroke. Re-applies patches and keeps the conversation.

ID reload · Default on · Compatible * · Source

What it does

Press Ctrl+X Ctrl+R and the current Claude Code process exits with code 75. The cx wrapper catches that exit code and respawns claude --continue, so your conversation resumes from exactly where it was — but against a freshly-patched bundle.

This is the loop you want while authoring or toggling patches. Edit a patch, hit Ctrl+X Ctrl+R, and the change takes effect without losing context.

Usage

Ctrl+X Ctrl+R inside any running cx session.

How it works

Like the other keybinding patches, this one registers a new chat:reload action in KEYBINDING_ACTIONS (found via the "chat:submit" literal) and binds Ctrl+X Ctrl+R to it in DEFAULT_BINDINGS. The handler is a useCallback with an empty deps array that just calls process.exit(75). The action is added to the memoized chatHandlers object under the "chat:reload" key.

The second half of the loop — catching exit code 75 and respawning — lives in src/cli.ts, not in this patch.