Add code navigation from the command palette

[Achllle]

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I've been using the command palette (feature preview) for a while now and love it for quickly switching between repos. However there's a really obvious (in my mind) feature lacking, which is quick code navigation. I'd like to be able to quickly jump to a file from the command palette, so I'm hoping it would pull up the (cached) tree of the main branch and allow you to navigate to a file or folder quickly. Some of my colleagues try doing this by remembering the tree structure and typing it in the address bar, which often leads to a 404 because of a typo.

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[AlanGreene]

In the code view you can use the keyboard shortcut t for 'Go to file' to achieve what you're describing if I understood correctly. You can type a partial filename / path etc. and press enter to navigate to the selected file.

Also fyi, command palette is being removed. See this announcement from last week: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-15-upcoming-deprecation-of-github-command-palette-feature-preview/

Discussion showing massive community response to this announcement: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/166528

[AlanGreene]

@Achllle I played around with the command palette some more to see what else I'd be losing when they remove it next month and it looks like code navigation is already available. Open the command palette and type / to bring up the 'Search files' feature.

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/github-command-palette#github-command-palette-reference