Bright has more than one search, and they do not cover the same things. Knowing which is which saves you from concluding a record is gone when it is simply outside the box you are looking at.

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Start with ⌘K

The command palette opens from anywhere with ⌘K. It searches sessions, projects, issues, documents, and agents in one list, and it reaches navigation and actions such as the Capabilities sections. Paste an issue code like IS-42 and the palette jumps straight to it. Destinations are scoped to your organization, so the palette only shows what the active org can see. Use the palette when you know roughly what you want and want to go there.

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Search issues by title

The Search issues box above the issue list filters the current view and matches titles only. Against an issue titled “Card payments fail intermittently on retry” whose description mentions the web checkout and idempotency keys:
Tip: An empty result means “no title matched”, not “no such issue”. Try a title word, open ⌘K, or ask an agent, which reads descriptions too.

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Searches are shareable

Typing in issue search writes q= into the URL alongside the current view and filters, so /plan/issues?view=all&q=payments is a link a teammate can open and see the same list.

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Find documents

In Docs, the quick switcher finds documents by title.

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When nothing else works, ask

An agent in Ask mode queries the workspace directly rather than through an index, so it reads descriptions, sub-issues, and records no list view displays. It is the reliable way to get a complete answer, such as a true count that includes sub-issues.
  • Issues: views, filters, and counting caveats.
  • Documents: where documents live and how artifacts relate.
  • Chat and agents: starting and organizing sessions.