Otty

A native, beautiful terminal app.

Designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke. Tuned for code agents you already run.

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feat/socket-metadata

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main · localhost

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ui/inbox

bench runner

bench/socket-meta

docs site

docs/vt-osc

token audit

chore/tokens

zsh — review⌄ ⌃

~/web-app feat/socket-metadata

$ agent run --review socket.rs

● analyzing main-thread hot path…

modified src/ipc/socket.rs

- self.flush_all_metadata();

+ self.coalesce(&mut pending);

+ if pending.len() > BATCH { flush() }

✓ 3 files · +42 −18 · 1.2s

$ cargo bench socket_meta

main-thread lag 58.3ms ▸ 23.1ms

● watching · 2 agents active

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A Agent · review

Coalesced the socket metadata writes — main-thread lag down ~60%. Patch applied & benched.

edit socket.rs bench ✓ open PR ↗

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socket.rsRUST

13fn coalesce(&mut self, p: &mut Vec<Meta>) {

14 for m in p.drain(..) {

15 self.buf.merge(m);

16 }

17 self.dirty = true; // batch

18}

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Pull Request#209

Merged2h ago

Reduce main-thread lag from repeated socket metadata updates

coalesce writes+42−18

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Otty Complex ADE

Simple where you start.

Otty sits between a traditional terminal and a full agent dev environment. Keep the focused, keyboard-first UI you already love — and gain the workflows you actually reach for, without the panels, buttons, and complexity of an IDE getting in the way.

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Modern from the ground up.

A native, GPU-accelerated terminal that feels like a modern app — designed for how you actually use a terminal in 2026.

Ligatures & Unicode

Programming ligatures with full Unicode and clusters.

Rich text styles — underlines, strike-through, reverse video

True color & rich styles

24-bit color, bold, italics, and underlines.

An inline image rendered in the terminal

Inline images

View images right in the scrollback.

Beautiful themes

Fully tunable color schemes.

Clickable file names and paths in ls output

Interactive links

Click files, URLs, and paths to jump straight there.

Natural text editing

Word jumps and selections like a real editor.

Smooth scroll

Fluid, GPU-accelerated scrolling.

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And more

Plenty more under the hood.

One window, many threads.

Tabs, panes, and splits — laid out however you think. Pick up exactly where you left off.

Tab sidebar with live status badges and unread dots

Tabs, your way.

Vertical or horizontal, with live badges and unread dots.

Splits & panes.

Free-form layouts — drag, snap, resize.

Watch process & notifications.

Track long-running jobs and get pinged the moment they finish.

Session recovery.

Close the lid, reopen — every pane right where it was.

Every command, a shortcut away.

Reach for what you need without leaving the keyboard. Tune the shortcuts and recipes that fit your workflow.

Command palette

Fuzzy-find any action.

⌘⇧P

Inline autocomplete

Ghost-text suggestions as you type.

Esc/Tab

Open Quickly

Jump between sessions instantly.

⌘⇧O

Snippets, commands & layouts

Custom recipes for your workflow.

⌘S

Also, plays well with the you already run.

First-class affordances for the agents and chat sessions that now live inside your terminal.

Parallel agent tasks with progress monitoring

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Free for macOS, with no account required.

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