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Settings used to cover the workspace it was opened from, hiding the terminal a setting was being tried on. It now opens a separate window. - The state and page stay on the workspace's Tty7App; a thin SettingsWindow view borrows it to draw, observes it to repaint, and sets its own rem size. The state is built against the new window, so its inputs and subscriptions belong to it. - Opening again raises the window instead of closing it. Esc, Cmd-W and the close button go through close_settings_checked, so unsaved forms and theme drafts still prompt; closing hands focus back to the workspace window. The window goes when its owner is released. - open_settings_then / close_settings_then run follow-ups in the right window: loading an SSH form happens in the settings window, and Connect opens its tab in the workspace window. - Window opacity, blur and backdrop are pushed to every window, since they are now changed from a window that is not the workspace. - Tests keep the in-window overlay so they can drive settings through their single test window.
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
A background server owns your shells and panes — not the window. Everything below follows from that.
- 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
- Agent-aware — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, and git context for every repo at once
- Scriptable by agents — one agent opens a pane for another, hands off a task, waits, and reads the result, with or without the GUI running
- Editor-grade input — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search, with no plugin to install
- Remote development — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine, over a native SSH stack
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
| Agent-aware | per-pane detection (23 CLIs) · status dot · notifications · branch + diff · tray icon when input is needed · resume after reboot · tab sidebar grouped by repository |
| CLI + Skills | bundled tty7 CLI · agent skill · run streams a command and exits with its code · split · send · wait --until free · capture |
| 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 · ⌘ J panel with process tree and listening ports · 13 themes, your own YAML, iTerm2 import · IME |
| Shell integration | injected when a pane starts, nothing to install · prompt marks · working directory · exit codes · command-finished notifications · zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell, WSL, remote panes |
| Remote workspaces | remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off |
| SSH | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged tty7-server install |
Supported agents
Detection is free: brand avatar, branch + diff, tab title.
Status takes one click under Settings → Integrations to install that agent's hook,
and brings the status dot, notifications, the tray icon, tty7 wait, and resume
after a reboot. Fork needs both — the agent's own fork command, and the hook
that tells tty7 which session to fork.
The full support matrix, all twenty-three
| Agent | Detected | Status · resume | Fork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Codex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TraeCode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grok | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenCode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Oh My Pi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Droid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Goose | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qoder CLI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CodeBuddy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gemini | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Copilot | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Kimi Code | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Pi | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Crush | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cursor | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Aider | ✓ | ||
| Amp | ✓ | ||
| Auggie | ✓ | ||
| Hermes | ✓ | ||
| Vibe | ✓ | ||
| Antigravity | ✓ |
None of them are wrapped or proxied — the agent you start is the agent you get,
in a normal PTY, with its own interface. An agent launched through a wrapper
script can be mapped to one by name with agent_commands in config.json.
Documentation
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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