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Two menus in the switcher could open with nothing to press and no word
about why, which reads as broken rather than as not-yet.
A remote workspace this client has never adopted has no local id, and
all four row verbs address a workspace by id — so right-clicking one
greyed the whole menu. A machine reached over WSL or stdio that has
never connected has no home directory for New Workspace, no live link
for Disconnect, and no Restart Server, which is offered to SSH alone;
its menu greyed out the same way.
Both now say what would make the verbs work, in the register the tab
pane already uses for adopted rows ("Open this workspace to see its
tabs"). The machine case gets a named predicate so the one state that
reaches it stays pinned while the verbs move around.
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 |
|
| 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/.
Built on gpui and alacritty_terminal · Apache-2.0 · Discord · Changelog
Description
A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.
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