diff --git a/nanobot/cli/commands.py b/nanobot/cli/commands.py
index 52b81064..cd03e0ee 100644
--- a/nanobot/cli/commands.py
+++ b/nanobot/cli/commands.py
@@ -310,8 +310,33 @@ def _build_cli_key_bindings() -> KeyBindings:
       * Enter       -> submit the current input (keeps the familiar
                        single-line Enter-to-send feel even though the buffer
                        is multiline-capable).
-      * Alt+Enter   -> insert a newline for multi-line input.
+      * Alt+Enter   -> insert a newline for multi-line input. Universally
+                       supported, so this is the reliable multiline shortcut.
+      * Shift+Enter -> insert a newline on terminals that emit the CSI-u
+                       (kitty / fixterms) keyboard-protocol encoding for it.
     """
+    # Terminals speaking the CSI-u (kitty / fixterms) keyboard protocol -- e.g.
+    # kitty, Ghostty and WezTerm when it is enabled -- send Shift+Enter as the
+    # escape sequence "\x1b[13;2u". prompt_toolkit 3.0 has no support for that
+    # protocol (no way to negotiate it, no default mapping for the sequence), so
+    # when such a terminal sends it the Vt100Parser fails to recognise the
+    # sequence and dumps the raw bytes ("^[[13;2u") straight into the buffer.
+    #
+    # Register the sequence so it parses as one keypress bound to insert a
+    # newline instead. "\x1b[13;2u" is absent from prompt_toolkit's default
+    # ANSI_SEQUENCES table, so this is a pure addition -- setdefault() overrides
+    # nothing -- carried on Keys.ControlF3, an enum member prompt_toolkit
+    # declares but never wires to a default sequence or binding.
+    #
+    # This is best-effort: without protocol negotiation we can only *react* to a
+    # CSI-u sequence a terminal already emits, not *request* one. Terminals that
+    # collapse Shift+Enter into a plain Enter are indistinguishable and fall back
+    # to Alt+Enter, which is why Alt+Enter stays the primary shortcut.
+    with suppress(Exception):
+        from prompt_toolkit.input import ansi_escape_sequences as _aes
+
+        _aes.ANSI_SEQUENCES.setdefault("\x1b[13;2u", Keys.ControlF3)
+
     kb = KeyBindings()
 
     @kb.add("enter")
@@ -327,6 +352,10 @@ def _build_cli_key_bindings() -> KeyBindings:
     def _(event):
         event.current_buffer.insert_text("\n")
 
+    @kb.add(Keys.ControlF3)  # Shift+Enter on CSI-u capable terminals
+    def _(event):
+        event.current_buffer.insert_text("\n")
+
     return kb
 
 
diff --git a/tests/cli/test_cli_input.py b/tests/cli/test_cli_input.py
index c7857f1f..b958ecb4 100644
--- a/tests/cli/test_cli_input.py
+++ b/tests/cli/test_cli_input.py
@@ -127,6 +127,29 @@ async def test_alt_enter_inserts_newline_on_lf_terminals():
     assert result == "foo\nbar"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_csi_u_shift_enter_inserts_newline_not_raw_escape():
+    """Terminals speaking the CSI-u (kitty / fixterms) keyboard protocol send
+    Shift+Enter as "\\x1b[13;2u". prompt_toolkit has no support for that protocol
+    and would otherwise dump the raw escape bytes ("^[[13;2u") into the buffer;
+    the binding must instead parse it as one keypress and insert a newline. Only
+    a real PromptSession/parser exercises the ANSI_SEQUENCES registration.
+    """
+    from prompt_toolkit.application import create_app_session
+    from prompt_toolkit.input import create_pipe_input
+    from prompt_toolkit.output import DummyOutput
+
+    with create_pipe_input() as pipe_input:
+        with create_app_session(input=pipe_input, output=DummyOutput()):
+            commands._init_prompt_session()
+            session = commands._PROMPT_SESSION
+            pipe_input.send_text("foo\x1b[13;2ubar\r")
+            result = await session.prompt_async("> ")
+
+    # A newline is inserted and no raw escape bytes leak into the result.
+    assert result == "foo\nbar"
+
+
 def test_thinking_spinner_pause_stops_and_restarts():
     """Pause should stop the active spinner and restart it afterward."""
     spinner = MagicMock()