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Agents & Commands - Agent Inbox: The vertical tab bar now tracks popular coding agents across SSH, tssh, Mosh, and tmux panes. See who is working, waiting, or done; jump to the right pane; get notifications; group agents by project; and monitor subscription usage. - Command Detection: Optionally track long-running builds, tests, deployments, transfers, progress, and prompts such as sudo, with the same cards and notifications. herdr - Discover herdr sessions with status, active agents, and a live pane preview; attach or restart them from the session picker; or auto-start herdr over SSH, Mosh, and tssh. SSH & Terminal - Passkey-Backed SSH Keys: Generate standard sk-ecdsa keys held by your passkey provider. Approve each signature with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode; private key material never reaches rootshell. - Post-Quantum Keys: Generate or import OpenSSH 10.4-compatible hybrid ML-DSA-44 + Ed25519 keys, with ssh-add, agent forwarding, and host-key support. - Configure TERM globally or per profile. Sessions also identify rootshell through LC_TERMINAL. - Install Key on Server works with passwords, saved passwords, 2FA, and keyboard-interactive challenges again. Locale handling now avoids setlocale warnings and works correctly over tssh. Screen Sharing - Curtain Mode: When Remote Management is enabled on the Mac, blank its physical display behind a lock screen while you stay in control. - New defaults for clipboard security and pointer panning. Connection Info adds live performance details for tssh and tmux window tabs. - High Performance audio and video stay in sync. Standard Mode responds faster on slow links, sharpens progressively, and avoids stale tiles or partially drawn first frames. - Sessions recover from stalls, idle-network interruptions, and brief app switches. Returning from the background reconnects immediately when needed. - Option keys reach Mac hosts correctly, and saved-password login is more reliable. Privacy & Automation - Auto-Redact masks names, email addresses, and other strings on screen so they stay out of screenshots and recordings, while copied text remains unchanged. Your list is encrypted in the keychain. - New Apple Shortcuts actions open a shell or SSH profile, list profiles, and run SSH commands in the background with output, stderr, and exit status. Apple Pencil & Keyboard - Apple Pencil is now a precise terminal and Screen Sharing pointer: tap, drag, scroll, select, hover, and double-tap the barrel for right-click. - Toolbar keys follow the system keyboard's Shift and caps lock. Modified keys repeat again, hardware-keyboard settings now appear on iPhone, and bottom-edge gestures no longer type accidental keys. - Opening Settings or the tab switcher with the keyboard visible is dramatically smoother and no longer repeatedly resizes remote sessions. Clipboard, Profiles & Tabs - Clipboard Manager can unwrap hard-wrapped text and reflow it to a chosen width while preserving document structure, CJK, and emoji. - Profile icons now include a searchable catalog of SF Symbols, developer icons, and site favicons. - Grouped tabs gain a quick group picker and stable saved ordering; sidebar titles can wrap to three lines. AI - Custom providers now support Anthropic-compatible APIs, model discovery, keyless local servers, correct endpoint previews, and clearer server errors. Battery & Stability - Adaptive refresh rate runs at full speed on power and caps itself on battery, alongside Low Power Mode and thermal throttling. - Fixed iOS and iPadOS background terminations, a terminal parser deadlock, AES-GCM and Screen Sharing crashes, tmux title and reconnection issues, delayed background bells, and synced biometric-key authentication.
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About
rootshell is a desktop-class terminal emulator built on libghostty — the GPU-accelerated engine behind the Ghostty desktop terminal. A local shell on every platform, Mac screen sharing, native SSH, mosh-compatible roaming, tssh, system-wide VPN, native git, and Metal rendering in a single app. NEW: SCREEN SHARING Reach your Mac's screen, not just its shell, from your iPhone or iPad. High Performance mode streams up to 4K at 60 FPS, fully encrypted. Match Client sizing spins up a virtual display sized exactly to your device: no panning, no letterboxing, with remote system audio. Standard VNC mode covers Linux and headless machines, and tunnels over SSH jump hosts. Nothing to install on the Mac — turn on Screen Sharing and connect. Touch, trackpad, hardware keyboard, and two-way clipboard all work, in tabs, splits, or full screen. METAL-ACCELERATED TERMINAL Built on libghostty's Zig core with direct Metal rendering. Smooth scrolling, zero-flicker synchronized output, and full mouse capture for tmux, vim, and zellij. Tabs, split panes, and persistent scrollback across app restarts. THREE REMOTE PROTOCOLS, ONE APP • SSH — Native Swift SSH client with Ed25519, ECDSA, RSA, and post-quantum ML-KEM + ML-DSA. Jump hosts, port and agent forwarding, and Keychain password storage. • Rootshell Roam — Mosh-compatible sessions survive network changes and app restarts. Multipath TCP bonds WiFi and cellular. Predictive local echo keeps typing responsive. STUN-based NAT traversal punches through firewalls. • tssh with QUIC (TLS 1.3) and KCP transport for lower latency, full native scrollback, and session resumption. NATIVE TMUX INTEGRATION Attach in control mode (tmux -CC) and tmux windows become native tabs, panes become real splits — copy, search, and scroll with native gestures. A dashboard shows live window previews, and tabs survive restarts over tssh. SSH VPN Turn any SSH or tssh session into a system-wide VPN. Route all device traffic through your remote server. No extra software on the server — if you can SSH to it, you can VPN through it. NATIVE GIT Clone, commit, diff, log, blame, rebase, cherry-pick, and worktree — in native Swift with SSH transport. Syntax-highlighted pager output and optional AI-generated commit messages. VOICE AI AGENT Talk to an always-on assistant over Gemini Live. It reads scrollback, runs SSH commands hands-free, searches the web, and asks permission before anything risky. OPTIONAL TEXT AI Chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or 400+ models via OpenRouter. Bring your own API key. HARDWARE SECURITY KEYS Private keys never leave hardware. FIDO2/WebAuthn authentication with touch-to-sign. SANDBOXED LOCAL SHELL A full local shell with vim 9.1, Helix, SFTP, SCP, curl, jq, mtr, and standard Unix utilities. The rf browser offers yazi-style miller columns with image previews and git indicators. croc peer-to-peer file transfer, flag-aware tab completion, and prompt themes. CLOUD & KUBERNETES Connect to AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Akamai (Linode), and Tailscale. Browse instances, access serial consoles, generate EKS kubeconfigs, and debug Kubernetes nodes with ephemeral pods. 450+ THEMES & VISUAL EFFECTS Over 450 color themes with location-based day/night switching. Animated backgrounds — solar, ocean waves, starfields, fireflies — plus Shadertoy-compatible shaders and custom fonts. CUSTOMIZABLE TOOLBAR Drag, reorder, and hide 45+ built-in keys. Create custom keys that send text, key combos, or sequences. Sticky modifiers with tap and double-tap lock. Separate iPhone and iPad layouts. CONNECTION MANAGEMENT Save profiles with folders, tags, and iCloud sync. Quick Connect autocompletes from history and cloud instances. Background SSH tunnels with auto-start. Siri Shortcuts integration. KEYBOARD POWER FEATURES QMK-style mod-tap keys, dictation and CJK input, customizable shortcuts, and Option key as Alt for international layouts.
What's new · 1.0.10
Agents & Commands - Agent Inbox: The vertical tab bar now tracks popular coding agents across SSH, tssh, Mosh, and tmux panes. See who is working, waiting, or done; jump to the right pane; get notifications; group agents by project; and monitor subscription usage. - Command Detection: Optionally track long-running builds, tests, deployments, transfers, progress, and prompts such as sudo, with the same cards and notifications. herdr - Discover herdr sessions with status, active agents, and a live pane preview; attach or restart them from the session picker; or auto-start herdr over SSH, Mosh, and tssh. SSH & Terminal - Passkey-Backed SSH Keys: Generate standard sk-ecdsa keys held by your passkey provider. Approve each signature with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode; private key material never reaches rootshell. - Post-Quantum Keys: Generate or import OpenSSH 10.4-compatible hybrid ML-DSA-44 + Ed25519 keys, with ssh-add, agent forwarding, and host-key support. - Configure TERM globally or per profile. Sessions also identify rootshell through LC_TERMINAL. - Install Key on Server works with passwords, saved passwords, 2FA, and keyboard-interactive challenges again. Locale handling now avoids setlocale warnings and works correctly over tssh. Screen Sharing - Curtain Mode: When Remote Management is enabled on the Mac, blank its physical display behind a lock screen while you stay in control. - New defaults for clipboard security and pointer panning. Connection Info adds live performance details for tssh and tmux window tabs. - High Performance audio and video stay in sync. Standard Mode responds faster on slow links, sharpens progressively, and avoids stale tiles or partially drawn first frames. - Sessions recover from stalls, idle-network interruptions, and brief app switches. Returning from the background reconnects immediately when needed. - Option keys reach Mac hosts correctly, and saved-password login is more reliable. Privacy & Automation - Auto-Redact masks names, email addresses, and other strings on screen so they stay out of screenshots and recordings, while copied text remains unchanged. Your list is encrypted in the keychain. - New Apple Shortcuts actions open a shell or SSH profile, list profiles, and run SSH commands in the background with output, stderr, and exit status. Apple Pencil & Keyboard - Apple Pencil is now a precise terminal and Screen Sharing pointer: tap, drag, scroll, select, hover, and double-tap the barrel for right-click. - Toolbar keys follow the system keyboard's Shift and caps lock. Modified keys repeat again, hardware-keyboard settings now appear on iPhone, and bottom-edge gestures no longer type accidental keys. - Opening Settings or the tab switcher with the keyboard visible is dramatically smoother and no longer repeatedly resizes remote sessions. Clipboard, Profiles & Tabs - Clipboard Manager can unwrap hard-wrapped text and reflow it to a chosen width while preserving document structure, CJK, and emoji. - Profile icons now include a searchable catalog of SF Symbols, developer icons, and site favicons. - Grouped tabs gain a quick group picker and stable saved ordering; sidebar titles can wrap to three lines. AI - Custom providers now support Anthropic-compatible APIs, model discovery, keyless local servers, correct endpoint previews, and clearer server errors. Battery & Stability - Adaptive refresh rate runs at full speed on power and caps itself on battery, alongside Low Power Mode and thermal throttling. - Fixed iOS and iPadOS background terminations, a terminal parser deadlock, AES-GCM and Screen Sharing crashes, tmux title and reconnection issues, delayed background bells, and synced biometric-key authentication.
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