Hydra 0.2.8
The first public release of the Hydra local desktop, matching the 0.2.8 build distributed at hydraterms.com.
Install
macOS
brew install --cask hydraterm/hydra/hydraterms
Linux
curl -fsSL https://hydraterms.com/install.sh | sh
Or download a package below. Building from source is documented in DEVELOPMENT.md.
What's in this build
- A PTY daemon that owns your terminal sessions, so closing the app doesn't kill a running agent.
- Provider-history discovery: agent sessions already on your machine — Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and others — appear in the dashboard, ready to resume.
- Projects, windows, split panes and layouts, with stash and revive for panes you want out of the way but still running.
- Agent-aware panes with blocked / working / done attention signals.
- A native GPU-rendered UI on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux (x86-64 and arm64).
- Secret-aware redaction: launch arguments that look like credentials are never persisted verbatim.
Community and source builds are network-silent by default. The update check and model-catalog feeds are behind the off-by-default official-distribution feature.
Verifying a download
Each artifact's SHA-256 is published in the release manifest at
https://app.hydraterms.com/downloads/version.json and matches the files attached here:
| File | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
Hydra-macOS.dmg |
2740886cd6b0233adb2a65f705c6f586d7d17945b17e258d111059ee5047914f |
Hydra-linux-amd64.deb |
1dc6cbfa484b1d30e8424fa90f3335152cdb42bd9fbd46389a961cd5e229cb17 |
Hydra-linux-arm64.deb |
ce048428da6328ad52af9863ed6a1350d69e16305eb53556e12fb2e673ae694a |
Hydra-linux-amd64.tar.gz |
d0b2ae799859e6fd730f65f2c8ee3a6f87324936bef6c8bf3ea0d688a2d411f3 |
Hydra-linux-arm64.tar.gz |
70bbdb89c5006bb918c7d3dc7823d9f21652a2d065e2527bc8c829872bea348b |
Notes
Hydra Remote, the optional hosted service for reaching these sessions from a browser, is a separate product and is not part of this repository. The boundary is documented in docs/public-private-boundary.md.
Issues and platform reports are welcome. Security reports go to security@hydraterms.com, never a public issue.