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The WSL bootstrap writes the rcfile on the Windows side and names it to the distro over `/mnt`. That path is not a given — automount can be off, `/etc/wsl.conf` can move the root, and a distro can have no drvfs at all — and the bash arm passed it to `--rcfile` without asking whether it was there. bash ignores an unreadable `--rcfile` in silence. And because tty7 starts it non-login on purpose, so that `--rcfile` is honoured at all, there is no `.bash_profile` pass to fall back on: such a pane opened a shell that had read no startup file of any kind. Not tty7's integration, which is the part that was supposed to be optional — the user's own `.bashrc`, gone, with nothing said. The pane looks fine; every alias, prompt and function the user wrote is simply absent. The arm now checks the file is readable from inside the distro before committing to it, and falls back to a plain login shell when it is not: no integration, but a shell that reads everything the user wrote. That is the same shape the zsh arm beside it already uses, and the failure worth having of the two. The dispatch test grows the case: with a `TTY7_RC` naming a file that is not there, the bootstrap must exec `bash -l` and must not mention `--rcfile` at all.
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 (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
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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