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Six `tty7 server start` at once reported six different pids, five of them gone by the time they were printed, and every one of them claimed `"started": true`. The singleton admits one server and the losers exit immediately — but they all spawned a child first, and they all then see `running()` go true, because the winner is up. Each reported the child it had spawned. `pid` is the field a script keeps in order to watch or stop the server, so five of six callers were handed a dead one. Report the pid that is actually serving, read from the pidfile, and say `started: false` when this call was not the one that started it — the same answer `start` already gives when a server was up before it ran. Readable by then: the daemon writes the pidfile after `bind`, and `running()` needs a request answered, which is later still. The ordinary path is untouched: a start that wins reports its own child, because that is the serving pid. Verified by racing six starts against an isolated config dir — all six now report the one live pid, exactly one says it started it — and by a single start, which reports the pid `ps` shows for that config dir. Also checked while looking for this, and sound: a truncated, garbage, empty or wrong-schema machine.json is quarantined (`.corrupt`, then `.corrupt.N`) and the server starts clean; a killed server's pane children do not leak, since closing the pty master hangs them up.
tty7
A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.
Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty
English · 简体中文
Why
- Performance — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (benchmarks)
- Persistent sessions — quit or reboot; your shells and supported agent sessions keep running, no tmux
- Editor-grade input — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search
- Remote development — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine
- Native SSH — profiles, SFTP, port forwarding, and jump hosts
- Agent-aware — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, git context
- CLI + Skills — agents create panes, run commands, and inspect output
Install
Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux on Releases:
| macOS | …-macos-arm64.dmg · …-x86_64.dmg |
drag into Applications |
| Windows | …-setup.exe · portable ….zip |
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| Linux | …-x86_64.AppImage |
chmod +x and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled |
What's inside
| Editor-grade 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 · nine themes · IME |
| Agent-aware | per-pane detection (18 CLIs): status dot · notifications · branch + diff · resume after reboot · tray icon when input is needed |
| Remote workspaces | remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off |
| CLI + Skills | bundled tty7 CLI · agent skill · pane/workspace control · real PTY commands · output, process, port, and agent status |
| SSH | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged tty7-server install |
Full documentation lives in docs/ —
keyboard shortcuts ·
config.json ·
CLI reference. The agent-facing CLI interface is also
documented in skills/tty7/SKILL.md.
Install the skill with:
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 (lower = better) |
95 ms | 239 ms | 179 ms | 185 ms |
| DOOM-fire 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 server 11 MB.
Methodology and one-command reproduction: scripts/bench/.
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