Your terminals, in a browser tab. Perch turns the machine your code actually runs on into a VS Code-style workspace you can open from any browser - laptop, tablet, or phone.
Open a folder as a project and it gets its own terminal session. Run
nvim, git, a dev server, an AI agent. Close the laptop; the terminals
keep running in a daemon of their own, and come back with their history,
working directories and names after a server restart, a redeploy, a crash,
or a reboot.
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- Terminals that outlive the browser. A bundled daemon owns every terminal, so restarts, dropped connections and sleeping laptops cost you nothing. Scrollback replays exactly as it was written.
- A real workspace, not just a shell. Tabbed and split terminals, a file
tree with drag-and-drop upload, source control, project-wide search,
image/PDF/Markdown/CSV viewers, and
Ctrl+Pto jump anywhere. - Good on a phone. Touch selection, a key bar for the keys phones don't have, swipe gestures, and zero-lag local echo when you're typing to an agent over a slow link.
- Your editor, your keys, your theme.
nvimby default, VS Code color and icon themes installed unchanged, and every shortcut rebindable. - Ports, reachable. The server lists what's listening and opens it in a tab, proxies it, or forwards it to your machine with one command.
- AI agents as first-class citizens. Claude Code and Codex are configured once and reused everywhere, with hooks written for you and push notifications when an agent needs an answer.
- Extensible on purpose. Nearly every surface above is itself a bundled extension, built on the same API your own extensions get.
See docs/FEATURES.md for the full tour.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuanpham-dev/perch/main/install.sh | bashOn Windows, in PowerShell:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuanpham-dev/perch/main/install.ps1 | iexThis builds the app, installs a perch command, and starts a user service
that survives logout and comes back on boot. Perch is then at
http://127.0.0.1:3001. You need Node.js 23+ and a C/C++ toolchain; the
installer checks first and tells you what's missing.
Manage it with perch start / stop / status / logs / update, and
run perch doctor if anything looks wrong.
| Features | What everything does, in detail |
| Keyboard & mouse | Default shortcuts and terminal gestures |
| Install | Requirements, the installer, and the perch CLI |
| Deployment | Production, nginx, and authentication |
| Port forwarding | The tunnel CLI and the built-in port proxy |
| Extensions | Installing, bundling, and writing extensions |
| Extension API | The complete API reference |
| Architecture | Why the core stays small |
| Development | Running from a clone, and the repo layout |
MIT - see LICENSE.