l0ng-ai a4d0a10a6e docs(cli): events had no schema, and promised a pane-exit event nothing sends
`events` is the streaming interface an agent builds on, and it was the one verb
whose JSON shape the reference did not give — every other one lists its fields
exactly. Now it does: the externally tagged envelope, the four event kinds a
listener sees, and the thirteen `layout` delta kinds.

The prose also listed "pane exits" as an event type. There is no such event.
`ControlEvent::PaneExited` is defined, encodes, and has a line
`tty7 events` would print for it — and nothing anywhere constructs one outside
the round-trip tests in its own file. `AgentStatus`, `Preempted` and
`LayoutResync` have 2, 10 and 6 emitters respectively; this one has none. An
agent waiting for a pane-exit line waits for good.

What actually happens is checked against a running server: exit the shell in a
pane and exactly one event arrives — a `layout` delta carrying `pane_facts` for
that pane with `"live": false`, and the pane is gone from `pane ls --all`. The
docs now say to watch for that, in a note that says outright there is no
pane-exit line whatever the wire protocol's shape suggests.

The variant keeps a comment saying the same thing, and that resolving it means
either emitting it where the pane is reaped or removing it along with the
`event_line` arm — not something to do in passing, since taking a variant out
of a wire enum is a dialect change.

2951 tests pass.
2026-08-15 19:30:16 +08:00

tty7

tty7

A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.

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


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tty7 with a tab sidebar of agent sessions across several repos, running Claude Code

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
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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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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