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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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 the app and your shells keep running; after a reboot, layout, screen, and supported agent conversations come back. 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:
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| 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
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| Agent-aware | per-pane detection (28 CLIs) · status dot · notifications · branch + diff · tray icon when input is needed · resume after reboot · reopen any past session from Search Everywhere · one-key launch · 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 · hibernate a tab to free its memory · IME |
| Side panel | ⌘ J · process tree and listening ports · file tree · changes and diffs · find in files · GitHub issues and pull requests, read-only, signed in through gh |
| 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. Past sessions are read from the agent's
own history files and listed in Search Everywhere, where ⏎ resumes one.
| Agent | Detected | Status · resume | Fork | Past sessions |
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| Claude Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Codex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TraeCode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Grok | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OpenCode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Oh My Pi | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prime Agent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Droid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qwen Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Goose | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Qoder CLI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qoder CN CLI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CodeBuddy | ✓ | ✓ |
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, and the New Tab menu names the ones you have actually
run. 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 |
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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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