by zenbu-labs
A browser inside your terminal
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Last scanned: 8/12/2026
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terminal-browser is an open-source cli tools skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by zenbu-labs. A browser inside your terminal. It has 3,371 GitHub stars.
Yes. terminal-browser passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
terminal-browser is primarily written in TypeScript. It is open-source under zenbu-labs on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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A real browser that runs inside your terminal
curl -fsSL https://terminal-browser.sh/install | bash
Note: Run
terminal-browser upgradeto upgrade versions
brew install terminal-browser
terminal-browser # launches the browser
terminal-browser open <url> # opens the browser at a url
terminal-browser --split right # opens the browser in a split pane to the right
terminal-browser open --ssh <user@host> <url> # performs all network requests through a remote server
terminal-browser ls # lists open browsers
terminal-browser action # an agent-browser compatible cli for interacting with open terminal-browsers
terminal-browser upgrade # upgrade to the latest version
| Action | macOS | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Quit | ctrl+q or ctrl+c | ctrl+q |
| New tab | cmd+t | ctrl+t |
| Edit URL | cmd+l | ctrl+l |
| Command palette | cmd+p | ctrl+k or alt+k |
| Find in page | cmd+shift+f | ctrl+shift+f |
| Next / previous match | enter / shift+enter | enter / shift+enter |
| Reload | cmd+r | ctrl+r |
| Back / forward | cmd+[ / cmd+] or ctrl+[ / ctrl+] | ctrl+[ / ctrl+] |
| Zoom in / out / reset | your terminal's zoom keybind | your terminal's zoom keybind |
| Devtools | cmd+shift+i or f12 | ctrl+shift+i or f12 |
| Devtools console | cmd+alt+j | ctrl+alt+j |
| Copy / paste / cut | cmd+c / cmd+v / cmd+x | ctrl+c / ctrl+v / ctrl+x |
| Record page (start/stop) | ctrl+r | ctrl+shift+r |
| Complete recording review | ctrl+enter | ctrl+enter |
| Start element selection (send to agent) | ctrl+g | ctrl+g |
| Close popup / overlay | escape | escape |
Terminals that support the kitty graphics protocol, including ghostty, kitty, cmux, vscode and many more, allow a program running in a terminal to display pixels in your terminal. We use this capability to display pixels generated by chromium.
We use electrons offscreen rendering API to read pixels generated by chromium directly from the GPU. This allows terminal-browser to render smoothly without dropping any frames.
After the browser engine starts and is displaying pixels in the terminal, it needs to be able to read user input for websites to actually work. terminal-browser listens to mouse clicks, mouse position, and keyboard events from the terminal, and then sends synthetic events to chromium based on that data. For any user input events that are not retrievable from the terminal, we read directly from the operating system using a background swift app to listen for input events (non intrusively). This is what allows terminal-browser to implement smooth scrolling, and listen to trackpad events (websites with infinite canvases work great inside terminal-browser!)
The outer UI of the browser is implemented using a graphics engine built on top of rust. The actual UI is defined inside react with a custom react renderer, which allows us to build the UI for the browser using typescript. The UI of the outer browser and the browser content itself is all drawn to the same shared canvas inside the rust engine, which allows us to layer UI on top of the browser.
The underlying logic described here has been abstracted into a javascript library that you can use to build your own graphical applications in the terminal - https://github.com/zenbu-labs/pixel
The recommended way to use terminal-browser over ssh is running terminal-browser --ssh <ssh arguments>.
The alternative is running terminal-browser directly on the machine you are shh'd into. This will work, but:
terminal-browser --ssh improves on this by running the website on your local device, and simply proxying all network requests made by the browser via the remote machine over ssh. This means you can load any website running on localhost of the remote machine on your local device.
terminal-browser supports embedding inside of existing TUIs. See examples/embedded for a reference implementation
To get a local development setup of terminal-browser, the recommended way is to ask a coding agent.
terminal-browser's cli includes sub commands that rely on terminal/multiplexer scripting features.
To implement support for a terminal/multiplexer not yet supported, reference existing implementations
located here https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser/tree/main/terminals/src/terminals