l0ng-ai 57d72c91ad feat(control): machine-tree verbs and incremental Layout deltas
Teach the control dialect the semantic operations the machine tree
serves: MachineGet / WorkspaceTree pulls, WorkspaceCreate / Rename /
Remove / Touch / SetActiveTab, TabCreate / Close / Rename / Move /
SetGroup, and PaneSplit / Close / SetRatio / Move / Replace. Replies
carry the daemon's own tree types (a created workspace or tab comes
back whole; close operations answer the pane ids that left the tree so
the caller can kill their PTYs), and every operation broadcasts a
ControlEvent::Layout delta to every connection but the writer's — the
same origin-exclusion mechanism the record store uses, one delta at a
time instead of whole-record last-writer-wins.

The server advertises a new 'machine-tree' capability bit only when it
actually carries a MachineStore; both daemons now do, alongside the
retired opaque record store, which keeps serving unchanged while
clients migrate. Delta fan-out rides its own bounded queue and
forwarder thread per connection, so a peer that stopped reading stalls
nobody's edit; the drop-on-overflow tradeoff is documented against the
keepalive that reaps such a peer and the full pull every reconnect
starts with.

The request/reply/event enums lose their Eq derive: split ratios are
f32. End-to-end tests drive the shipped tty7-server binary over real
pipes: capability advertisement, tree ops landing in the server's own
file, dead-pane revival across a real process restart, and delta
delivery between two live clients.
2026-07-29 21:01:58 +08:00

tty7

tty7

A terminal workbench: shells, sessions, SSH, coding agents.

Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty


CI Version License Discord

English · 简体中文

Why

  • Fast — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (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:

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 · nine 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. Keybindings: ⌘ , opens Settings — browse and remap everything, tmux preset included (full list).

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 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/.


S
Description
A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.
Readme Apache-2.0
34 MiB
Languages
Rust 99.1%
Shell 0.5%
PowerShell 0.2%
Inno Setup 0.1%