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Sessions & terminal

Open a local terminal

The Terminal surface opens a real shell on your own machine as a tab beside your SSH and console sessions — handy for a quick ping, a git command, or an SSH you’d rather run by hand. It’s human input: the AI is structurally blind to it.

Steps

  1. Click the Terminal tab in the left rail (the third rail tab, beside your SSH and API sessions).
  2. The launcher lists the shells installed on your machine, each with its version — zsh, bash, fish, PowerShell, cmd, any WSL distros, and Python / Node REPLs that are on your PATH.
  3. Click the shell you want, or take the default. A new terminal tab opens with that shell running.

What you can do

It’s a full terminal, the same as the SSH panes:

  • Type and run anything — it’s your machine, so there’s no permit list and no approval prompt (those are agent-only).
  • Split and tile it alongside SSH, console, and other local shells.
  • Clear the scrollback, and log it to a file or export it, the same as any session.
  • Open as many as you want; each is its own tab.

Restart in place

When the shell exits — you type exit, or a REPL quits — the tab stays put with its final output on screen and a banner prompting you to press Enter to restart. Enter spawns a fresh shell in the same tab, scrollback preserved.

No Terminal tab?

If there’s no Terminal tab in the rail, an administrator has disabled the surface with [terminal] enabled = false in Transit’s config.toml. It’s on by default. See Local terminal for the full surface, including where the config file lives.