A turn-key terminal workspace built from tools you already trust. One command opens a file browser, an agent and a shell in one window, configured and verified, using the tools you already have.

The default cockpit layout, inside Zellij. Click for full size.

Get it

One command, no root. It installs into your home directory, so it works unchanged on immutable distros and inside Toolbx.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bspeelm/bothy/main/bootstrap/install.sh | sh

Then bothy in any project directory. There are six ways in — dnf, apt, Homebrew, Go, source — and the install page covers each and what verifies it.

Read about it

• The documentation — the words bothy uses, a first session, every command, the doctor, and what it does and does not secure.
• The code — one Go binary, one dependency, and the decisions that produced it.
• How this was built — the longer account.