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  "slug": "terminal-browser",
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  "name": "terminal-browser",
  "use_label": "A browser inside your terminal",
  "one_liner": "A real Chromium browser running inside kitty-graphics terminals like ghostty and VS Code",
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    "why": "This is not a text-mode imitation: it reads the pixels Chromium renders on the GPU through Electron's offscreen rendering and paints them into the terminal with the kitty graphics protocol. A coding agent and a website share one terminal tab, the agent can drive open browsers through an agent-browser compatible CLI (terminal-browser action), and ctrl+g selects a page element to send to the agent. The --ssh option runs the browser locally and proxies only its network requests through the remote host, so a remote localhost site shows without port forwarding. Installed with one curl line or Homebrew; v0.8.1 (2026-09-09), MIT.",
    "take": "The goal is not staying in the terminal for its own sake but keeping the agent and the browser in one tab and one CLI — which is why a kitty-graphics terminal is the price of entry.",
    "build": [
      "Since terminal-browser action is agent-browser compatible, you can build a loop where the agent's HTML mock-ups open in a split pane and you pick elements to feed back. The examples/embedded reference shows how to embed a web view inside your own TUI."
    ],
    "who": [
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        "role": "Developers running coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex in the terminal",
        "situation": "the agent drives the browser itself"
      },
      {
        "role": "People developing on remote servers",
        "situation": "preview localhost over --ssh without port forwarding"
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        "role": "ghostty and kitty users",
        "situation": "open docs and web apps in a split pane"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "curl -fsSL https://terminal-browser.sh/install | bash   # macOS & Linux"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "brew install terminal-browser                            # Homebrew"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "terminal-browser open <url>"
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        "text": "terminal-browser --split right"
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        "text": "terminal-browser open --ssh <user@host> <url>"
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      "MIT (per the repository LICENSE file; the README itself does not state a licence)",
      "macOS and Linux per the install script; Windows is not mentioned in the README [확인 필요]. Requires a terminal with the kitty graphics protocol (ghostty, kitty, cmux, VS Code and others)",
      "v0.8.1 (2026-09-09); Chrome extensions and design mode are on the roadmap; it runs Electron (Chromium) underneath; memory footprint [확인 필요]"
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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