The mikupad interface is designed to be simple and direct.

Prompt Area

This is the large, central text editor. You write your prompts here, and the model's responses appear directly in this area. It's a single, continuous document.

Prediction Controls

Located at the bottom of the sidebar, these buttons control the generation process.

• Predict (Ctrl+Enter): Starts text generation from the current cursor position.
• Cancel (Esc): Stops an ongoing generation.
• Regenerate (Ctrl+R): Deletes the most recent block of generated text and starts a new prediction from that point.
• Undo (Ctrl+Z): Reverts the last generation or text change.
• Redo (Ctrl+Y): Re-applies an undone action.

Token Highlighting & Probabilities

• By default, text generated by the model is highlighted with a light background to distinguish it from user-written text.
• You can hover your mouse over generated tokens to see a popup with the top alternative tokens and their probabilities. This can be configured in Editor Preferences.

Context Menu

Holding Ctrl and right-clicking inside the prompt area opens a context menu with useful shortcuts:

• Instruct Here...: Opens a modal to give the model instructions without cluttering your main prompt.
• Predict Here: Inserts a special {predict} placeholder and starts generation from that point, ignoring any text that follows.
• Fill-In-The-Middle Here: Inserts a {fill} placeholder to have the model generate text that connects the content before and after the cursor (requires a compatible Instruct Template).
• Insert...: Quickly insert System or Instruct template formatting around selected text.