* feat(panel): add Search and GitHub tabs to the right panel The right panel grows from three tabs to five. Five word labels do not fit the panel's 280px resting width, so the tab row now draws a glyph per tab and names it in a tooltip. Both new panes are placeholders here; the content search and the GitHub issues/PR browser land on top of this. * feat(panel): find in files in the right panel's Search tab The Search tab replaces its placeholder with a content search over the active tab's project -- the same roots the Files tab shows -- on the host that project lives on. Hits arrive as you type (debounced, with a generation counter so a stale answer never lands), grouped by file with a count, each line excerpted with its matches highlighted. Clicking a hit opens the built-in editor at that line and column; Enter searches again. Match-case, whole-word and regex toggles sit at the end of the field, and the tab focuses its field whenever it is brought forward. Host::search_content is new on the Host trait, implemented once in host::content_search (ignore walk + regex) and run by LocalHost directly and by tty7-server over a new SearchContent control request. The walk honours .gitignore with or without a repository, skips dot-entries, binary files and files over 1 MB, and reports a capped search as truncated. The request is gated on a new `content-search` hello feature, so a server that predates it is never sent it; the panel says the server needs updating instead of showing no results. Conformance cases cover local and the stdio server alike. * feat(panel): browse GitHub issues and pull requests in the right panel The GitHub tab follows the focused pane's repository: its root is resolved the way the Source Control tab does, its remotes are read through the Host (the tree may be on another machine), and the github.com remote is bound, upstream over origin in a fork, with a menu to pick another. The list switches between issues and pull requests, open and closed, 50 rows a page with Load more; rows carry a state glyph distinct by shape, labels (click one to filter by it) and relative times. A row opens the detail in place: title, state, author, labels, description and comments as Markdown, and for a pull request its branches, size and changed files. A file opens in the diff overlay through a new supplied-patch DiffSource, so GitHub's patch renders exactly like a local one without a git probe. Read-only, and sign-in reuses the GitHub CLI: GH_TOKEN, GITHUB_TOKEN, then `gh auth token`, found on PATH or at the Homebrew locations a Finder launch cannot see. Signed out, public repositories still work; 401, 403, 404 and rate limits are told apart and explained. Requests go out from this machine over the installer's ureq stack and proxy settings, on threads of their own, cached per repository with background revalidation. Remote images in issue text become links instead of loading, and non-web link targets are disarmed. The Info tab gains a GitHub row that opens the branch on the remote it tracks, or the repository for a branch never pushed. * docs: list ShowRightPanelGitHub with the other panel actions * feat(panel): one-line GitHub rows, a pill for the current tab - GitHub list rows are one line: state glyph, #number, title. Labels and the age of the last update appear on hover, from state rather than a group_hover display switch, which gpui cannot paint. - The current right panel tab sits on the sidebar's selected fill; ink alone could not tell five same-weight glyphs apart. - The GitHub glyph is a 1.8px outline like the other tab icons, not the filled mark. - The detail byline names both times (opened / updated) so it no longer reads as disagreeing with the list's update age. * feat(github): show screenshots pasted into issues Images GitHub hosts itself (github.com/user-attachments, a repo's /assets, *.githubusercontent.com) now render in issue and PR text, each in a paragraph of its own so the text view draws it at its size rather than at line height. Images from any other host stay links, so opening an issue still tells no third party that you read it. gpui held a null HTTP client, so no remote image could load; the app now installs the update check's reqwest client (same user agent and proxy) at launch. * fix(github): load private-repo screenshots, give inline code a neutral fill - Pasted attachments (github.com/user-attachments/assets/<uuid>) want a browser session on a private repository, which an API token is not. The detail and comment requests now ask for the full media type, and each attachment is swapped for the signed private-user-images URL the rendered body_html carries for the same uuid. - Inline code in rendered Markdown (the GitHub tab and the editor's preview) sits on a faint neutral fill instead of the theme accent, which is also the selection colour. Needs gpui-component 6af19d91 for TextViewStyle::inline_code_background. * style(panel): tidy the GitHub and Search tabs' top rows - GitHub drops its heading row on macOS. It existed only to hold the refresh tile, and no other tab has one; refresh now sits with the repository's other actions, in the repo row and a detail's header. - Search's Aa / ab / .* toggles are muted while off instead of body ink. - Search's idle note puts the folder on its own line, spelled ~/…, so the narrow column no longer breaks the path at a slash. * feat(panel): order the right panel's tabs Info, Files, Search, Changes, GitHub Info stays first as the default and the pane's overview; after it come two pairs, the project's files (Files, Search) and its version control from local to remote (Changes, GitHub), where Changes and GitHub were split by the file tabs before. The palette, the Keybindings list and the docs follow the same order. * style(panel): drop the change count from the Changes tab Beside one glyph of five, the number read as a badge on that tab alone, and the Changes tab already leads with the same count under its own heading. right_panel_tabs no longer needs the row's width, which it only measured to decide whether the count fit. * style(icons): fit the GitHub glyph to the other tab icons' size The Lucide mark filled its whole 24px box, edge to edge, where tty7's own icons keep about 3.5px clear, so at 15px it drew a size larger than the four tabs beside it. Scale it to 0.9 about the centre, and raise the stroke to 2.0 so it still renders at the others' 1.8. * style(icons): a simpler GitHub glyph Drop the Lucide mark's tail and redraw the head and legs on tty7's own grid: the same ~15px live area and 1.8 stroke as the other tab icons, no scale transform. The legs keep it reading as the Octocat; a head alone read as any cat. * test(github): find gh on PATH in the blank-variable token test The test placed gh only at /opt/homebrew/bin/gh, which gh_candidates never offers on Windows, so the Windows CI job panicked at unwrap. Put gh on a PATH directory spelled with the platform's exe name instead. * fix(github): close image and link bypasses in the issue Markdown sanitiser Checked against markdown-rs (the parser TextView uses), several inputs got past the line-based rewrite: - is_github_hosted cut the host only at `/`, so `https://evil.io?.githubusercontent.com/x.png` (and `#`, `\`, `/`) counted as GitHub-hosted and was fetched from evil.io. The host now ends at the first of `/?#\` and may hold only DNS characters. - `<img src>` values were written into `` unescaped, so a `)` in the value closed the image and opened a second one from any host. Written destinations are now percent-encoded. - `<image>` (which the HTML parser reads as `<img>`) passed as an ordinary tag and loaded its src. - A kept link target was copied without scanning; when the parser ended the link elsewhere (open title, unbalanced paren) a `` inside it came alive. Markup characters in it are now encoded. - `file:///...` and similar character references passed is_safe_target and decoded to a `file:` link. References are decoded before judging. The rewrite still cannot see every construct the way the parser does (code spans inside tag attributes, fences the parser rejects, multi-line link definitions), so the detail view now also checks the parsed tree: a block containing a non-GitHub image, an unsafe link or definition, or raw `<img>` is drawn as its plain source instead. * fix(github): hide gh's console, bound Retry-After, and reject URL authorities with ?#\ - run gh through proc::output_within with hide_console, so a Windows GUI launch does not flash a console window and stdout is drained while gh runs. - saturating_add a hostile Retry-After instead of overflowing i64. - parse_github_url no longer accepts `https://evil.io#@github.com/o/r`. * fix(search): no panic on an unbounded time budget, and read files through the size cap ContentLimits arrive off the wire on a server; Instant + u64::MAX ms panicked. A file that grew between the size check and the read was read whole; it is now read through a take() at the cap. * fix(panel): keep Load more on an empty filtered page, and drop another host's hits - /issues pages filtered to one kind can come back empty while later pages hold matches; the GitHub list said "No issues" and hid Load more. It now reads on through up to five such pages and keeps Load more offered. - While a new search runs, the previous hits stay on screen; if they came from another host, a click opened their path on the active host. They are now kept only when the host is the same.
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 (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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