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Restructure both READMEs around what tty7 is for: shells that outlive the window, agents that drive other agents, and remote machines that work the same way because they run the same server. Performance becomes a short supporting section with concrete numbers; the rest of the feature list collapses into one paragraph that links to the docs. Also: - Correct the persistence claim: shells survive quitting the app, not a reboot; after a reboot the layout, the screen tail, and supported agent conversations come back. - Add a past-sessions column to the agent matrix, matching the agents agent_history::scan reads. - Drop the wrapper-script / agent_launch paragraph (already in the configuration reference) and the separate full-quality video link. - docs/window/search-everywhere.mdx: the Sessions tab has listed every supported agent, on remote workspaces too, since #977; the page still described only Claude Code and Codex on this computer. Also document the Cmd/Ctrl-E row actions.
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<div align="center">
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<img src="assets/app-icon.svg" alt="" width="96" height="96" />
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<h1>tty7</h1>
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**The terminal that outlives its window.**
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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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<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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</div>
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<br />
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Most terminals tie your shells to a window. Close the window and the shells die
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with it. So people run tmux inside their terminal to keep them alive, which
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works, but it means learning a second set of keys and keeping a second config
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file, just to get around the window.
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tty7 takes a simpler approach. The shells belong to a server running in the
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background, and the window only shows them. Close the window and nothing happens
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to the shells. Most of what's interesting about tty7 follows from that one
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decision.
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## Quitting doesn't kill anything
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Quit tty7 and every shell keeps running. Your build doesn't notice.
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A reboot is different. The processes are gone, because that's what a reboot
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does. But each pane comes back with its layout and the last of what was on
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screen, and supported agents pick up the same conversation where they left off.
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You don't need tmux for any of this, and there's nothing to configure.
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→ [What survives what](docs/getting-started/concepts.mdx)
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## Agents that run agents
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A lot of people now run several coding agents at once, in several repos. Which
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means spending the day switching between windows to see which one finished and
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which one is waiting for an answer. That's not work a person should have to do.
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tty7 recognizes 26 coding CLIs, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor,
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and OpenCode, and puts all of them in one sidebar: whether each is working or
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waiting, a notification when one needs you, and its branch and diff. You can see
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at a glance which one wants you.
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Once an agent's status is something a program can ask about, the one asking
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doesn't have to be you. It can be another agent. The whole loop is four
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commands, with no framework, and it works whether or not the GUI is open:
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```sh
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PANE=$(tty7 split --v) # give the worker a pane
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tty7 send "$PANE" 'claude "add tests for the parser"' --enter
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tty7 wait "$PANE" --until waiting,done --changed --timeout 600 # until it's done or stuck
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tty7 capture "$PANE" --plain # read what happened
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```
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tty7 doesn't wrap the agents or sit between you and them. The agent you start
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is the real one, running in an ordinary PTY. Simple things are more likely to
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keep working.
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→ [Orchestrating agents](docs/agents/orchestration.mdx) ·
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[agent skill](skills/tty7/SKILL.md) · [full support matrix](#supported-agents)
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## Remote is the same thing
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A remote workspace is the same server, running on the other machine. The window
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here just shows it. Tabs, panes, the file tree, git, and diffs all live over
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there, and no files get synced. Connect from a different laptop and everything
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is where you left it.
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So remote isn't really a separate feature. It's the local case with the server
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somewhere else.
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The SSH client is tty7's own, written in Rust, so it doesn't depend on the
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system's ssh. It has profiles with keychain secrets, jump hosts, SFTP, and
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automatic port forwarding. The remote `tty7-server` installs once and doesn't
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need root.
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→ [Remote workspaces](docs/remote/workspaces.mdx)
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## Speed
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Speed isn't the point of tty7, but it shouldn't be a weakness either, and it
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turns out not to be. `cat` on an 11 MB file takes 95 ms; the next fastest
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terminal we measured takes 179. DOOM-fire runs at 888 fps; the next best manages
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617. The method and scripts are public, and one command reproduces them.
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| | **tty7** | Alacritty | Ghostty | Kitty |
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|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
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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>Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1, 155×40 grid, five-run averages, 2026-07-04. ¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.
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Methodology and one-command reproduction: [`scripts/bench/`](scripts/bench/README.md).</sub>
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## Everything else
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The rest is details, but details are most of what makes a tool pleasant to use.
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The prompt has suggestions from your history, tab completion that explains each
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option, syntax highlighting, and real multi-line editing, and <kbd>⌃ R</kbd>
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searches your history. <kbd>⌘ P</kbd> searches everything. <kbd>⌘ J</kbd> opens
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a side panel with processes, ports, files, changes, and GitHub issues and PRs.
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Shell integration works in zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell, and WSL without
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installing anything.
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→ [Full documentation](docs/) · [keyboard shortcuts](docs/reference/keyboard-shortcuts.mdx) ·
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[config.json](docs/reference/configuration.mdx) · [CLI reference](docs/cli/reference.mdx)
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## Install
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Native builds on [**Releases**](https://github.com/l0ng-ai/tty7/releases/latest):
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| **macOS** | `.dmg` for Apple silicon or Intel — drag into Applications |
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| **Windows** | `-setup.exe`, or the portable `.zip` |
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| **Linux** | `.AppImage` — `chmod +x` and run; X11/Wayland libraries bundled |
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Give your agents the CLI skill:
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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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## 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. **Past sessions** are read from the agent's
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own history files and listed in Search Everywhere, where <kbd>⏎</kbd> resumes one.
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<details>
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<summary>The full support matrix</summary>
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| Agent | Detected | Status · resume | Fork | Past sessions |
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|---|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
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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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| **Prime Agent** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
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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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| **Qoder CN 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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| **Antigravity** | ✓ | ✓ | | |
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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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| Empryo | ✓ | | | |
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</details>
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---
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<div align="center">
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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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</div>
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