# zenbu-labs/terminal-browser

A browser inside your terminal

Repository: https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/terminal-browser
Homepage: https://terminal-browser.com
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: browser, cli, rust, terminal, web, claude-code, claude-skills, codex, herdr-plugin
Last push: 2026-08-25T23:23:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 4
- inputs: {"age_days": 58, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 26}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2285, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.402123+00:00)

## What it is
terminal-browser is a real Chromium-based browser that renders inside your terminal using the kitty graphics protocol and Electron's offscreen rendering API. It includes a CLI that lets AI coding agents open, view, and interact with web pages alongside their work, including over SSH.

## Use cases
- browse the web inside my terminal
- let my coding agent see and control a browser
- preview localhost apps next to my agent in a split pane
- view websites running on a remote server over SSH without port forwarding
- render HTML plans generated by an AI agent side by side
- test web flows like checkout with an agent

## When to choose
- you live in the terminal and want browsing without switching windows
- you use AI coding agents that need to see and interact with web pages
- you develop on remote machines and want to preview sites over SSH
- your terminal supports the kitty graphics protocol (ghostty, kitty, cmux, vscode)

## When to avoid
- your terminal does not support the kitty graphics protocol
- you need a full-featured desktop browser with extensions and profiles
- you are on Windows, which is not supported

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, web-scraping, developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, rust
- tags: terminal-browser, kitty-graphics-protocol, chromium, ai-agent-integration, ssh, offscreen-rendering, split-pane, browser, command-line, automation, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- zenbu-labs/terminal-browser (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.402123+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:05.218863+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zenbu-labs/terminal-browser (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.402123+00:00, sha e107789a9e50)
  - homepage: https://terminal-browser.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:21:19.717034+00:00, sha ddcc086f86b1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.