Tbh: never tried it (went straight to sway). But I found this one just now and it mentions using i3-msg in sxhkd for your i3 keybinds (like going to another workspace etc):
https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/is2x7a/use_sxhkd_along_with_i3/
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