Phosphor
A free macOS terminal that runs your servers and AI agents
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Details
- External ID
- 1273167
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Phosphor
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
One SSH connection per host runs the shell, Docker, live metrics, SFTP and keys. Split a pane and pick with Tab what runs in it: a shell or a coding agent (Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, opencode) — no API keys, each agent in its own git worktree. A built-in MCP server lets agents use your servers under a per-host policy with an audit log. Profile sync through your own server, end-to-end encrypted. Touch ID. Free, MIT.
Enrichment
- Niche
- terminal emulators and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos terminal for managing servers and ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a high-performance native macOS terminal emulator with multiplexed SSH, custom PTY handling, Docker daemons, Git worktree isolation, and an embedded MCP server requires deep systems programming.
What it would actually take: Implementation requires native macOS development (Swift/Objective-C or Rust via libpty/Alacritty core) integrating low-level POSIX pseudo-terminals, libssh2 session multiplexing, Docker socket management, and native macOS event loops. The hardest challenges are terminal emulation accuracy (VT100/ANSI compliance, zero-latency rendering via Metal), safe concurrent multi-agent process management, and embedded MCP communication.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 645 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #397 of 646 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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