Zentty

Zentty

A native macOS terminal for agent-driven development, built on Ghostty.

Zentty gets out of the way. Minimal friction, maximum focus.

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Features

Layout

• Worklanes, not tabs. A horizontally scrolling strip of columns, each a vertical stack of panes, borrowed from niri and Hyprland. Drag, resize, and rearrange without losing your place.
• Keyboard-first. Every action is a command, every command is bindable, and a fuzzy command palette catches whatever you forgot. Ghostty-compatible shortcuts out of the box.
• Visual pane switcher. Hold Ctrl+Tab to zoom out and pick a pane. ⌘⇧T reopens the pane you just closed.
• Restore everything. Worklanes, sidebar, and agent sessions come back on relaunch. Closed mid-task? Zentty resumes the agent, or reruns your last shell command.

Agents

• Agent-aware sidebar. Agents report status into the sidebar: working, waiting, asking for approval, compacting. You see who needs you without switching panes.
• Subagents and teams. A badge shows how many subagents are running and which models they use. Parents stay visible while background work continues.
• Menu bar status. Agent state lives in the macOS menu bar, so you know who needs you even when Zentty is hidden.
• 1Password prompts point home. When op or ssh-agent asks for approval, Zentty tells you which pane triggered it and can jump there.
• Stays awake. Zentty caffeinates the Mac while an agent is running.

Supported agents: Amp, Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor, Devin, Droid, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, Hermes Agent, Kimi, Mistral Vibe, Muse Code, Oh My Pi, OpenCode, Pi, and Small Harness. Any other tool can join via the [Agent Status Protocol](docs/agent-status-protocol.md).

Projects

• Dev servers and PRs in the sidebar. Running localhost servers show as clickable ports. Panes on a branch with a PR show its checks and review state.
• Task runners. Detects package.json scripts, Makefiles, justfiles, Taskfiles, and mise tasks, and runs them from the palette.
• Global search. Search inside a pane or across every worklane from one shortcut.

Remote and terminal

• Paste files into ssh sessions. Drop an image, PDF, or archive on a remote pane and Zentty uploads it over the existing ssh connection and pastes the remote path.
• Clean copy. Copy agent output without prompts, box drawing, and tracking params. Copy as Markdown keeps the structure.