tty7 ### tty7 **A terminal workbench: shells, sessions, SSH, coding agents.** Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty
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## Why - **Fast** — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty ([benchmarks](#benchmarks)) - **Sessions persist** — quit or reboot; your shells keep running, no tmux - **Editor-grade input** — completion, syntax highlighting, history search built in; zero config for zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell - **Agent-aware** — recognizes Claude Code & co. in a pane: status, notifications, session resume ## Install Native builds for each platform 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 libs bundled | ## What's inside | | | |---|---| | **Input** | ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · ⌃ R fuzzy history | | **Window** | tabs & splits · ⌘ P palette · ⌘ F scrollback search · eight themes · IME | | **Coding agents** | per-pane agent detection (~17 CLIs): status dot, notifications, branch + diff, resume after reboot, tray icon that signals "needs your input" | | **SSH** | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets, SFTP panel, port forwarding, jump hosts | Details for every row: [docs/features.md](docs/features.md). Keybindings: ⌘ , opens Settings — browse and remap everything, tmux preset included ([full list](docs/features.md#keybindings)). ## 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 IO — 11 MB `cat` (lower = better) | **95 ms** | 239 ms | 179 ms | 185 ms | | [DOOM-fire](https://github.com/const-void/DOOM-fire-zig) frame rate (higher = better) | **888 fps** | 485 fps | 552 fps | 617 fps | | Cold-launch memory | 116 MB¹ | 105 MB | 128 MB | 130 MB | ¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent daemon 11 MB. Methodology and one-command reproduction: [`scripts/bench/`](scripts/bench/README.md). ---
Built on [gpui](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed) and [`alacritty_terminal`](https://github.com/zed-industries/alacritty) · [Apache-2.0](LICENSE) · [Discord](https://discord.gg/s3dethqz2V) · [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)