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Every agent whose launch program is on PATH becomes a palette command, "Agent: <name>", ordered by frecency and bindable as LaunchAgent:<slug>. "New Agent Tab" (Cmd+Shift+A on macOS; unbound elsewhere, where Ctrl+Shift+A is select-all) launches the most recently used one, and the New Tab menu gains a single "Launch Agent..." row that opens the palette pre-filtered to them. A launch always opens a new pane (a tab in the active tab's cwd, or a split when picked from the palette with Alt held) and types the command into that pane's shell once it exists - immediately for a local pane, on landing for a remote one via PendingSpawn::run_on_land - never into a pane that was already there. Detection, status and resume then work as for a hand-typed agent. The command is the agent's bare binary unless the new `agent_launch` config map overrides it. A wrapper named there is detected as its agent without an `agent_commands` entry: the daemon folds the programs `agent_launch` runs into its alias map (interpreters, shells and real agent names excepted), reloaded when config.json changes instead of once per process, and a mapped script run under its interpreter (`bash ~/bin/cc`, `node cc.js`) is now recognised too. A running agent's pane menu gets "Set Current Launch Args as Default", which writes its launch argv - minus session flags and positional prompts, joined with the settings' quoting - into `agent_launch`. Remote workspaces cannot be asked for their PATH through the Host trait, so they offer the agents previously seen running in that workspace (WindowView::seen_agents).
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<img src="assets/app-icon.svg" alt="tty7" width="88" height="88" />
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### tty7
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**A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.**
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<sub>Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty</sub>
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<br />
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[](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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[](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/releases)
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[](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/releases)
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[](LICENSE)
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[](https://discord.gg/s3dethqz2V)
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<sub>English · [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)</sub>
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<br />
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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>
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<sub>▶ <a href="assets/tour.mp4">Watch in full quality</a></sub>
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</div>
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## Why
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A background server owns your shells and panes — not the window. Everything
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below follows from that.
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- **Performance** — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty ([benchmarks](#benchmarks))
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- **Persistent sessions** — quit or reboot; your shells and supported agent sessions keep running, no tmux
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- **Agent-aware** — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, and git context for every repo at once
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- **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
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- **Editor-grade input** — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search, with no plugin to install
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- **Remote development** — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine, over a native SSH stack
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## Install
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Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux on [**Releases**](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/releases):
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| **macOS** | `…-macos-arm64.dmg` · `…-x86_64.dmg` | drag into Applications |
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| **Windows** | `…-setup.exe` · portable `….zip` | |
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| **Linux** | `…-x86_64.AppImage` | `chmod +x` and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled |
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## What's inside
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| **Agent-aware** | per-pane detection (23 CLIs) · status dot · notifications · branch + diff · tray icon when input is needed · resume after reboot · tab sidebar grouped by repository |
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| **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` |
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| **Editor-grade input** | ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · <kbd>⌃ R</kbd> fuzzy history |
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| **Window** | tabs & splits · <kbd>⌘ P</kbd> palette · <kbd>⌘ F</kbd> scrollback search · <kbd>⌘ J</kbd> panel with process tree and listening ports · 13 themes, your own YAML, iTerm2 import · IME |
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| **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 |
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| **Remote workspaces** | remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off |
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| **SSH** | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged `tty7-server` install |
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## Supported agents
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**Detection** is free: brand avatar, branch + diff, tab title.
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**Status** takes one click under Settings → Integrations to install that agent's hook,
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and brings the status dot, notifications, the tray icon, `tty7 wait`, and resume
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after a reboot. **Fork** needs both — the agent's own fork command, and the hook
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that tells tty7 which session to fork.
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<details>
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<summary>The full support matrix, all twenty-three</summary>
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| Agent | Detected | Status · resume | Fork |
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| **Claude Code** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Codex** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **TraeCode** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Grok** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **OpenCode** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Oh My Pi** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Droid** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Qwen Code** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Goose** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Qoder CLI** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **CodeBuddy** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| **Gemini** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| **Copilot** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| **Kimi Code** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| **Pi** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| **Crush** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| **Cursor** | ✓ | ✓ | |
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| Aider | ✓ | | |
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| Amp | ✓ | | |
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| Auggie | ✓ | | |
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| Hermes | ✓ | | |
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| Vibe | ✓ | | |
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| Antigravity | ✓ | | |
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</details>
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None of them are wrapped or proxied — the agent you start is the agent you get,
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in a normal PTY, with its own interface. An agent launched through a wrapper
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script can be mapped to one by name with `agent_commands` in `config.json`.
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Every agent on your `PATH` is also a palette command (**Agent: Claude Code**, …)
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that opens it in a new tab; `agent_launch` sets the command line it starts with.
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## Documentation
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Full documentation lives in [**`docs/`**](docs/) —
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[keyboard shortcuts](docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.mdx) ·
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[config.json](docs/reference/configuration.mdx) ·
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[CLI reference](docs/cli/reference.mdx). The agent-facing CLI interface is also
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documented in [skills/tty7/SKILL.md](skills/tty7/SKILL.md).
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Install the skill with:
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```sh
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npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7 # install
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npx skills update tty7 # update later
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```
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## Benchmarks
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Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1,
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five-run averages (2026-07-04):
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| | **tty7** | Alacritty | Ghostty | Kitty |
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| Plaintext I/O — 11 MB `cat` <sub>(lower = better)</sub> | **95 ms** | 239 ms | 179 ms | 185 ms |
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| [DOOM-fire](https://github.com/const-void/DOOM-fire-zig) frame rate <sub>(higher = better)</sub> | **888 fps** | 485 fps | 552 fps | 617 fps |
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| Cold-launch memory | 116 MB¹ | 105 MB | 128 MB | 130 MB |
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<sub>¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.</sub>
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Methodology and one-command reproduction: [`scripts/bench/`](scripts/bench/README.md).
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---
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<sub>
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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)
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</sub>
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