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WispTerm is a cross-platform terminal workspace for remote development and AI agent workflows. This wiki is the hands-on usage guide.

WispTerm (formerly Phantty) is written in Zig and powered by libghostty-vt for terminal emulation. It bundles a fast terminal, tabs and splits, hundreds of themes, a file explorer with previews, an embedded browser panel, and a built-in AI Copilot — with first-class support for SSH and remote development.

Platforms

WispTerm ships for Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel). The Linux port is still in progress, so a few features below are Windows- or macOS-only — those are called out where relevant.

Features at a glance

• Terminal emulation — libghostty-vt VT parsing, FreeType glyph rendering, sprite/box-drawing.
• Themes & appearance — 450+ built-in Ghostty themes, custom fonts, background images, GLSL shaders → Themes-Appearance
• Tabs, splits & panels — vertical/horizontal splits, focus navigation, panel swap, Quake drop-down → Tabs-Splits-Panels
• File Explorer & previews — browse local, WSL, and SSH files; preview Markdown/text/tables/images → File-Explorer
• SSH & remote development — profile sessions, remote file download, automatic loopback port forwarding → SSH-Remote-Development
• Port forwarding & proxy — manual reverse/local SSH tunnels; share your local proxy with a remote server → Port-Forwarding
• AI Copilot & Agent — OpenAI-/Anthropic-compatible profiles, per-tab copilot sidebar, skills, history & resume → AI-Copilot
• Browser & Jupyter panel — open URLs in a side WebView panel (Windows) → Browser-Jupyter-Panel
• Inline images — Kitty Graphics protocol; show images and PDFs from remote shells → Inline-Images
• Opt-in remote access — share a session over a Cloudflare relay, disabled by default → Remote-Access

Start here

1. Installation — download and run WispTerm on Windows or macOS.
2. Getting-Started — first launch, the command center, tabs and sessions.
3. Configuration — where the config lives and the keys you can set.

Having trouble? Check the FAQ.

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See also: Installation · Getting-Started