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About had grown three sections that change system state and that nobody looks for under "About": a PATH install, a registry write, and a daemon restart. Two of them move out. The `tty7` CLI goes to Agents. That page already describes tty7 <-> agent integration in one direction (hooks reporting session status); the CLI is the other direction, and its own description leads with "so scripts and coding agents can drive tty7". The Loading and Unavailable arms there no longer return early, since the CLI toggle is about this GUI's own host rather than whichever machine the hook rows describe. The Windows Explorer context menu goes to the installer, which is where VS Code and Git for Windows put theirs: writing shell verbs is an install-time decision, not a runtime preference. A task checkbox drives new `--register-explorer-menu` / `--unregister-explorer-menu` flags, so the key layout stays in core::explorer_context_menu instead of being copied into the .iss. `status()` existed only to paint the settings UI and goes with it. The uninstaller unregisters unconditionally: an install that registered once and was later upgraded without the box ticked still holds keys that would otherwise point at a deleted exe. Server restart stays — it is about the app itself. Also fixes localization the About section had skipped: eight hardcoded English strings in the update block now have keys, and the orphaned SettingsCheckUpdatesDesc key (which still claimed "tty7 never updates itself", contradicted by the macOS in-app updater) is reused for a one-line description in place of a 60-word account of the updater's internals. Finally, terminology in the Chinese UI. hook, agent, worktree, diff and fork are read and spoken in English by Chinese developers, so translating them lost more than it gained. Scrollback was worse than a style question: 回滚 means rollback, the opposite direction. 窗格 for pane is kept — that one is standard. Co-authored-by: l0ng-ai <24760907+l0ng-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
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 each platform 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 (~17 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 |
Terminal and keybinding reference: docs/features.md. The agent-facing CLI interface is documented in skills/tty7/SKILL.md.
Install the skill with:
npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7
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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