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### tty7
**A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.**
<sub>Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty</sub>
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<a href="assets/tour.mp4"><img src="assets/tour.webp" alt="One-minute tour of tty7: agents across repos, one agent driving another through the CLI, the prompt editor, diffs, dragging panes, and sessions that survive quitting the app" width="900" /></a>
<sub>▶ <a href="assets/tour.mp4">Watch in full quality</a></sub>
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## Why
A background server owns your shells and panes — not the window. Everything
below follows from that.
- **Performance** — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty ([benchmarks](#benchmarks))
- **Persistent sessions** — quit the app and your shells keep running; after a reboot, layout, screen, and supported agent conversations come back. No tmux
- **Agent-aware** — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, and git context for every repo at once
- **Scriptable by agents** — one agent opens a pane for another, hands off a task, waits, and reads the result, with or without the GUI running
- **Editor-grade input** — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search, with no plugin to install
- **Remote development** — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine, over a native SSH stack
## Install
Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux on [**Releases**](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/releases):
| | | |
|---|---|---|
| **macOS** | `…-macos-arm64.dmg` · `…-x86_64.dmg` | drag into Applications |
| **Windows** | `…-setup.exe` · portable `….zip` | |
| **Linux** | `…-x86_64.AppImage` | `chmod +x` and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled |
## What's inside
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|---|---|
| **Agent-aware** | per-pane detection (28 CLIs) · status dot · notifications · branch + diff · tray icon when input is needed · resume after reboot · reopen any past session from Search Everywhere · one-key launch · tab sidebar grouped by repository, with pinned groups |
| **CLI + Skills** | bundled `tty7` CLI · [agent skill](skills/tty7/SKILL.md) · `run` streams a command and exits with its code · `split` · `send` · `wait --until free` · `capture` |
| **Editor-grade input** | ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · <kbd>⌃ R</kbd> fuzzy history |
| **Window** | tabs & splits · <kbd>⌘ P</kbd> Search Everywhere · <kbd>⌘ F</kbd> scrollback search · hibernate a tab to free its memory · IME |
| **Side panel** | <kbd>⌘ J</kbd> · process tree and listening ports · file tree · changes and diffs · find in files · GitHub issues and pull requests, read-only, signed in through `gh` |
| **Shell integration** | injected when a pane starts, nothing to install · prompt marks · working directory · exit codes · command-finished notifications · zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell, WSL, remote panes |
| **Remote workspaces** | remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off |
| **SSH** | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged `tty7-server` install |
## Supported agents
**Detection** is free: brand avatar, branch + diff, tab title.
**Status** takes one click under Settings → Integrations to install that agent's hook,
and brings the status dot, notifications, the tray icon, `tty7 wait`, and resume
after a reboot. **Fork** needs both — the agent's own fork command, and the hook
that tells tty7 which session to fork. **Past sessions** are read from the agent's
own history files and listed in Search Everywhere, where <kbd>⏎</kbd> resumes one.
<details>
<summary>The full support matrix, all twenty-eight</summary>
| Agent | Detected | Status · resume | Fork | Past sessions |
|---|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| **Claude Code** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Codex** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **TraeCode** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| **Grok** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| **OpenCode** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Oh My Pi** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Prime Agent** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| **Droid** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Qwen Code** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Goose** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| **Qoder CLI** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Qoder CN CLI** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **CodeBuddy** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Gemini** | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| **Copilot** | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| **Kimi Code** | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| **Pi** | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| **Crush** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
| **Antigravity** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
| **Cursor** | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| **Empryo** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
| **Muse Code** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
| **jcode** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
| Aider | ✓ | | | |
| Amp | ✓ | | | |
| Auggie | ✓ | | | |
| Hermes | ✓ | | | |
| Vibe | ✓ | | | |
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None of them are wrapped or proxied — the agent you start is the agent you get,
in a normal PTY, with its own interface. An agent launched through a wrapper
script can be mapped to one by name with `agent_commands` in `config.json`.
Every agent on your `PATH` is also a row in Search Everywhere (**Agent: Claude Code**, …)
that opens it in a new tab, and the New Tab menu names the ones you have actually
run. `agent_launch` sets the command line it starts with.
## Documentation
Full documentation lives in [**`docs/`**](docs/) —
[keyboard shortcuts](docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.mdx) ·
[config.json](docs/reference/configuration.mdx) ·
[CLI reference](docs/cli/reference.mdx). The agent-facing CLI interface is also
documented in [skills/tty7/SKILL.md](skills/tty7/SKILL.md).
Install the skill with:
```sh
npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7 # install
npx skills update tty7 # update later
```
## Benchmarks
Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1,
five-run averages (2026-07-04):
| | **tty7** | Alacritty | Ghostty | Kitty |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Plaintext I/O — 11 MB `cat` <sub>(lower = better)</sub> | **95 ms** | 239 ms | 179 ms | 185 ms |
| [DOOM-fire](https://github.com/const-void/DOOM-fire-zig) frame rate <sub>(higher = better)</sub> | **888 fps** | 485 fps | 552 fps | 617 fps |
| Cold-launch memory | 116 MB¹ | 105 MB | 128 MB | 130 MB |
<sub>¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.</sub>
Methodology and one-command reproduction: [`scripts/bench/`](scripts/bench/README.md).
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