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GhosttyEXTREME is a macOS terminal for developers who run several AI coding agents, like Claude Code and Codex, across several projects at once. It's a fork of Ghostty, the fast native terminal, that shows what every agent is doing, live: the code it's writing as it writes it, where it is in your project, what part of your backend it touches, and when it needs you. Agents share what they learn about each project, hand work to each other, and leave their changes in a review inbox you can undo from.

Everything Ghostty does still works, and your Ghostty config works as-is. This fork tracks official Ghostty releases and adds its features on top.

[!NOTE] Unofficial fork. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Ghostty project.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steventsvik/GhosttyEXTREME/custom/install.sh | bash

_{Apple silicon, macOS 13 or newer. Free and open source (AGPL-3.0). No account, no telemetry.}

Watch your agents work, live

Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or another agent in a tab, the way you already do. GhosttyEXTREME follows each one as it works.

Claude Code and Codex report live status through hooks that the welcome window sets up in one click. Gemini CLI, Copilot, Cursor, Amp, opencode, Goose, Droid and Hermes are recognized by their logos.

Features

Every agent, at a glance

A vertical sidebar (⌃⌘S) lists every tab with its folder, git branch and uncommitted changes. Tabs can be pinned, colored and renamed, and hovering one shows a card with more detail.

• Live status: working, waiting for permission, waiting for input, done or failed. Each card shows the task, how long the agent has been at it and its last action.
• Answer without switching: Allow and Deny right on the card, in Mission Control and in the notification. Keys are only sent when the agent's prompt is actually on screen.
• Project groups: tabs whose agents share a repository are grouped together, with a live summary ("2 working · 1 waiting") and a warning when two agents edit the same file.
• Agents act out their mood. Their sprite reads, types, runs commands and thinks, hops when it needs you and sparkles when it's done. The sigil glows amber while one waits and flares gold when one finishes.
• Alerts: when an agent waits on you in a pane you aren't looking at, you get a notification (click it to jump there) and a count on the Dock icon.
• Usage meters for your Claude and ChatGPT plans (5-hour and weekly windows), with graphs.

Mission Control

⌃⌘M shows every agent (or every pane) in every window as a live card: status, task, last action, time in that state and the last lines of its terminal. Agents waiting on you come first. Click a card to jump to it, or hand its work off from there.

The command palette (⌘P) puts waiting agents at the top too, so you can answer one in two keystrokes. It also starts new sessions and opens every tool.

A code editor that follows the agent

Each tab has its own VS Code–style editor (Monaco, ⌃⌘E) on that tab's folder, in your terminal theme.

• Follow mode: the editor opens each file the agent reads and animates its edits in as they happen. It follows even while closed, so opening it mid-task shows where the agent is right away.
• Agent panel: a timeline of the session: prompts, thinking, messages, tool calls and results, sub-agents included. With several sub-agents, the editor splits into a pane for each.
• AI POV: replay a session as if you were at the agent's keyboard: files opening, code being typed, commands running.

Code map

Your project as a star map. Folders are tinted by what they are: frontend, API, database, tests, config. Files light up as the agent reads (cyan) and edits (orange) them.

• Zoom levels: Overview shows the project's areas and how much the agent did in each. Files shows every file. Symbols shows the functions and classes inside, with the ones changed this turn lit.
• Details for anything you click: what the agent did there, this turn's diff, the file's symbols, what imports it, and the backend pieces it uses.
• Blast radius: what imports the file is drawn on the map, with a warning when no test covers the change.

Project memory

⌃⌘Y shows what Claude Code and Codex remember about the current project, in one window.

• Claude Code's notes can be read, edited and deleted. Deleting one removes it from MEMORY.md too.
• Codex's memories for the project are shown read-only, because Codex rewrites them itself.
• Instruction files (CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md) that the agents load every session can be edited in place. It never overwrites a file an agent changed while you were editing.

Shared between agents

A new Codex session starts with what Claude Code has learned about the project, and a new Claude Code session with what Codex has learned, labelled as notes that may be out of date. Above, a fresh Codex session answers "how do I deploy and test this project?" from Claude's notes without opening a file. Nothing leaves your Mac, and you can turn it off in Settings.

Hand off

Pass a pane's work to another Claude Code or Codex session: a new one in a split beside it, or one that's already running.

• What it carries: the task, the recent conversation, exactly what the first agent changed (a diff since its first prompt), failed commands, and what the first agent remembers about the project. You can read and edit the message first.
• What to do: Continue picks up where the last agent stopped, Review checks the work without editing anything, and Second opinion weighs in on the approach.
• Failed commands can go straight to the agent already working on the project.

Review loops

Pair an agent with a reviewer (⋮ → Start a review loop…). Each time the writer finishes a turn, the reviewer gets its changes and answers APPROVED or CHANGES NEEDED, and its findings go back to the writer, until it approves or a round limit. Every message waits for your Send unless you turn on Send automatically, and nothing is ever typed into an agent mid-turn or over your own typing.

Review changes

When an agent finishes working in a git repository, its changes land in an inbox (⌃⌘I).

• Read the diff file by file, and approve or undo each file.
• Comment on lines and send the comments back as the agent's next prompt.
• Finish up: commit, or open a pull request.

Undo an agent's turn

Every agent turn starts with a snapshot of your project. Undo last turn (or an earlier one) from the tab's ⋮ menu, or Restore to before this on any of your prompts in the agent timeline. It lists every file it will change and asks first, and your current files are saved too, so the undo can be undone, and the review inbox updates to match. Snapshots are git objects only: no commits, branches or stash entries, and your staged changes stay as they are. Folders that aren't repositories work too.

See your backend

The Backend tab in the code editor's agent panel shows what your project runs on, worked out from its own files (package.json, wrangler.jsonc, supabase/, .vercel/, Prisma, env variable names). It works offline and without logins.

• Architecture: frontend → compute → data → services, with a line only where your code really connects two pieces.
  • Cloudflare Workers show their environments, domains, cron schedules and every binding: D1, Hyperdrive, KV, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, service bindings, Workers AI and more.
  • Supabase, Vercel, Prisma, Firebase, and services like Stripe, OpenAI and Resend, show up too.
• Live status comes from each provider's own CLI (wrangler, supabase, vercel), using the logins you already have and only read-only commands. It shows deploys per environment, project health, migrations not applied yet, and commits newer than the last deploy.
• Code links: click any piece to see every file that uses it, and open the provider's dashboard or your live site.
• Agent awareness: when the agent edits something that belongs to a piece of your backend, that piece lights up.

Database

The Database view draws your schema: tables, columns and relations for Supabase, Cloudflare D1, Postgres behind Hyperdrive (read from your migrations) and Prisma.

• Click a table to see its columns, what references it and where your code queries it.
• Row-level security is checked on every Postgres table.
• Large schemas can be searched, and unrelated tables fade back.

Visual Fix

⌃⌘V previews your running dev server beside the terminal, at desktop, tablet or phone size.

• Pick an element: hover any element and click it, then say what should change.
• What the agent gets: the element's HTML and CSS selector, the component and source file that render it (React, Vue and Svelte), its computed styles, and a screenshot.
• Where it goes: the request goes to the agent working in that project, pinned to the element, and its card shows "Visual fix:" with what you asked for. When the change lands, the preview reloads where you were.

Localhost sessions

When an agent starts a dev server (npm run dev, vite, rails s, make dev, …), an SSH tunnel, kubectl port-forward, ngrok or cloudflared, it opens in its own tab instead, so it keeps running after the agent is done. The agent is told the URL and how to read the logs.

• Sidebar cards: each server gets a card with live status, its localhost URL, framework, uptime, restart and stop.
• The Localhost manager (⌃⌘L) groups servers by project and shows their CPU and memory. It previews pages in a built-in browser and finds dev servers running elsewhere on your Mac, with Keep alive to move one into its own tab.
• Start one yourself from New → Localhost Server…, which offers your package.json scripts.

Ports

The sidebar lists what's listening, which project it belongs to (Next.js, Vite, Django and more get their own badge) and what started it. Open it in the browser or Visual Fix, jump to its tab, or stop it. When a command fails because its port is taken ("EADDRINUSE", "address already in use"), the sidebar names what holds the port and offers to stop it.

Git panel

Click a tab's branch for a panel with its pull request (title, review state and every check, failing ones first, each linked to its log), branches (switch, filter, create), stashes (stash, apply, pop, drop) and recent commits. Tabs show commits to push and pull (↑2 ↓1) and the pull request's number and checks beside the branch. Pull requests come from the GitHub CLI (gh) when it's installed and signed in.

Isolated sessions

+ New → Isolated Session (Docker) opens Ubuntu 24.04, Python 3.13, Node 22, or a sandboxed Claude Code or Codex in a throwaway container. Only the tab's folder is mounted, at /workspace; your home folder is not, and the container is deleted when you exit. Sandboxed agents keep their own login in a Docker volume, so your Mac's credentials are never shared. Needs Docker Desktop, OrbStack or Colima; if Docker isn't running and Colima is installed, it starts Colima and stops it again afterwards.

Agent races

⌃⌘R gives the same task to several agents at once (Claude Code and Codex, or several of one), each in its own git worktree so they can't touch each other's work or yours. Compare their diffs side by side and apply the one you want.

Background processes

⌃⌘K finds everything left running: dev servers, Colima VMs and containers, agent sessions, browser automation, databases, watchers, log followers and login services.

• Last really used: the last typing or output in its terminal, its agent transcript being written, a live connection to its port, or a busy container.
• A staleness rating (Active, Idle, Stale or Ready to close), with the reasons.
• Cleanup in one click, always with a confirmation first. Login services are never marked ready to close.

Command history

Every command becomes a block with its output, exit code and duration (⌃⌘B). When one fails, a chip offers Fix with Claude or Fix with Codex, or sends it to the agent already working on the project, with the command and its output.

Agent activity

⌃⌘A shows active time, prompts, files and lines changed, commands, test runs and tokens, per day, hour, agent and project. It reads the session history Claude Code and Codex already keep. Resume any recent session in a new tab, and API value shows what your usage would cost at API prices.

Setup, settings and updates

• Welcome window: on first launch it finds Claude Code, Codex and the tools the hooks need, connects your agents in one click (backing up each file it changes), lets you pick features, and runs a live test.
• Check Setup (GhosttyEXTREME menu or ⌘P) checks the hooks, each agent's config, jq, the shell integration and notifications, with a fix button on each problem. ghostty-extreme doctor runs the same checks in a terminal.
• Settings (⌘,) turns each feature on or off. A feature that's off has no menu item, shortcut, button or palette entry, and does no background work.
• Every shortcut: hold ⌃⌘ for a moment to see them all over the window.
• Updates arrive in the app (GhosttyEXTREME → Check for Updates…), signed with this project's key; nothing else is accepted.

Everything Ghostty already does

GPU-accelerated rendering, native tabs and splits, the quick terminal, hundreds of themes, ligatures, shell integration, AppleScript and Shortcuts. Your Ghostty config works as-is.

Light on your Mac

All of the sidebar's animations run in Core Animation, so the app does almost no work per frame. Anything you can't see pauses: background tabs, hidden and minimized windows. With six agents working at once, GhosttyEXTREME uses about 1–3% CPU (measured on an Apple silicon MacBook).

Security and privacy

• Nothing leaves your Mac. There's no account, telemetry or server. Agent tracking and shared memory read the files Claude Code and Codex already write.
• Only your own hooks can talk to it. Agent status arrives as terminal escape sequences, which any printed text could imitate. Each launch creates a secret that only its own terminals and hooks know, and events without it are ignored.
• The Backend view never stores credentials. It runs your providers' own CLIs with their existing logins, read-only commands only. It reads only the names of your env variables, never their values.
• The editor stays local. It can only show its own pages, and Visual Fix only talks to your local dev server.

How it compares

GhosttyEXTREME is for watching and steering the CLI agents you already use. If you want a terminal or editor with its own built-in AI, Warp or Zed may suit you better.

Where others are ahead: Warp and Zed run on Linux and Windows and come with their own AI. cmux has SSH workspaces and a browser your agents can control, and its sidebar also shows PR status and listening ports. Ghostty is the lean original that all of this is built on. GhosttyEXTREME is macOS-only, Apple silicon only, not notarized by Apple, and maintained by one person.

_{Compared from each project's public docs on October 7, 2026. Corrections welcome.}

Install

Apple silicon Macs, macOS 13 or newer. In Terminal:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/steventsvik/GhosttyEXTREME/custom/install.sh | bash

It downloads the latest release, checks it against the release's SHA-256 checksums and puts GhosttyEXTREME.app in /Applications. Then it opens: the welcome window connects Claude Code and Codex in one click and runs a live test.

Updates arrive in the app: GhosttyEXTREME checks for new releases and installs them when you say so (GhosttyEXTREME → Check for Updates…). They're signed, and the app only accepts updates signed by this project.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GhosttyEXTREME.app

Your existing Ghostty configuration works as-is.

Keyboard shortcuts

Hold ⌃⌘ for a moment to see them all over the window.

Agent status setup

./agent-hooks/install.sh

[[ -n "$GHOSTTY_EXTREME_AGENT_EVENTS" ]] && source ~/.ghostty-extreme/agent-hooks/ghostty-extreme.zsh

{ "type": "command", "command": "~/.ghostty-extreme/agent-hooks/agent-hook.sh claude stop" }

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/steventsvik/GhosttyEXTREME.git
cd GhosttyEXTREME
/opt/homebrew/opt/zig@0.15/bin/zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -Dxcframework-target=native
ditto macos/build/ReleaseLocal/Ghostty.app /Applications/GhosttyEXTREME.app

License

AGPL-3.0, see LICENSE. Ghostty's own code is MIT (LICENSE-GHOSTTY). Parts of the sidebar are derived from Warp (AGPL-3.0). Full credits and trademark notes are in NOTICE.md.

For Ghostty itself (configuration, themes, keybindings), see the Ghostty documentation.