l0ng-ai d814be18af feat(mobile): the switch shows whether phones can reach you, not a status row
Settings → Mobile had an "Allow phone access" switch that showed intent and a
separate Status row that showed reality. That is one thing shown twice, and
the switch could sit on while nothing was running.

- The switch is the state. Switching on holds it at "Starting…", disabled,
  until a gateway is actually serving. If the daemon reports a failure, or
  nothing comes up within 15 s, the switch goes back off, `mobile_access`
  is reverted, and a notification says why.
- If the page opens on a failure the daemon is still retrying, the switch
  shows off with the reason in its description, and switching it on
  retries.
- The Status row is removed, with its four strings. There are two new
  strings for the failure, in en, zh and ja.

Also fixes the Settings window never showing notifications. It is a `Root`
like the workspace window but did not draw the notification layer, so any
toast pushed from Settings was queued and never shown. That included the
existing "Set as Default Terminal" result.

Checked in a dev instance. On a tty7-server daemon with no tty7-gateway:
Starting… first, then off, with "Phone access could not start: … no
tty7-gateway beside it or on PATH". On a tty7-app daemon: on, with Show
code enabled and no toast.
2026-09-27 10:58:52 +02:00

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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One-minute tour of tty7: agents across repos, one agent driving another through the CLI, the prompt editor, diffs, dragging panes, and sessions that survive quitting the app

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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 (25 CLIs) · status dot · notifications · branch + diff · tray icon when input is needed · resume after reboot · tab sidebar grouped by repository, with pinned groups
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 Search Everywhere · ⌘ 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-five
Agent Detected Status · resume Fork
Claude Code ✓ ✓ ✓
Codex ✓ ✓ ✓
TraeCode ✓ ✓ ✓
Grok ✓ ✓ ✓
OpenCode ✓ ✓ ✓
Oh My Pi ✓ ✓ ✓
Prime Agent ✓ ✓ ✓
Droid ✓ ✓ ✓
Qwen Code ✓ ✓ ✓
Goose ✓ ✓ ✓
Qoder CLI ✓ ✓ ✓
CodeBuddy ✓ ✓ ✓
Gemini ✓ ✓
Copilot ✓ ✓
Kimi Code ✓ ✓
Pi ✓ ✓
Crush ✓ ✓
Antigravity ✓ ✓
Cursor ✓ ✓
Aider ✓
Amp ✓
Auggie ✓
Hermes ✓
Vibe ✓
Empryo ✓

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. Every agent on your PATH is also a row in Search Everywhere (Agent: Claude Code, …) that opens it in a new tab; agent_launch sets the command line it starts with.

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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