The terminal¶

The terminal in the workbench is a full xterm-compatible terminal, so full-screen curses applications, colour, mouse reporting and progress output all behave the way they do in any other terminal. This page covers what it can do and which of its behaviours you can change.

Emulation and rendering¶

Rendering is GPU-accelerated. If the machine has no usable GPU context, or the context is lost later — after a driver reset, for instance — the terminal falls back to software rendering rather than failing. You get slower rendering, not a dead terminal.

The rest of the emulation follows from that:

The terminal grid stays sized to its panel, so resizing the window or dragging the terminal's resize handle re-flows the session.
URLs in output are clickable, and open in your default browser.
Search runs over the session's scrollback, described below.
A session detached into its own window keeps its scrollback, and keeps it again when you redock it.

The local shell¶

A Local connection opens a real shell on your own machine as its own tab. On Windows that is cmd.exe or PowerShell; on macOS and Linux it is $SHELL, falling back to zsh or bash. Settings → Terminal → Default shell sets which one is used when a Local connection does not specify its own.

This is an ordinary terminal tab, not a limited console — the same emulation, search, copy and paste and theming as a remote session.

Search within scrollback¶

Ctrl+F, with the terminal focused, opens the find bar at the top of the terminal panel. Typing searches as you go and highlights matches. The bar has three toggles — case sensitive (Aa), whole word (W) and regular expression (.*) — and the arrows, or Enter and Shift+Enter, move between matches. Escape closes it and returns focus to the terminal.

Search runs over the scrollback buffer held in memory for that session. It is not an index, and it does not reach output that has already scrolled out of the buffer — see Scrollback below for the buffer size.

Copy and paste¶

Two settings under Settings → Terminal → Interaction govern this, and both ship on:

Copy on select — releasing the mouse after a drag-selection copies the selection to the clipboard.
Right-click pastes clipboard — a plain right-click pastes, when nothing is selected.

Pasting more than one line raises a confirmation first, showing the lines you are about to send, because an interactive shell can run each line the moment it lands. The prompt carries a do-not-show-again option. Single-line pastes go straight through.

Ctrl+right-click (or Cmd+right-click) on selected terminal text opens an analysis menu instead of pasting. It inspects what you selected, labels what it thinks it is, and offers actions that fit.

It recognises IPv4 and CIDR notation, IPv6, port numbers, URLs, filesystem paths, JSON, base64, PEM certificate blocks, MD5/SHA hashes, UUIDs, email addresses and version strings. Depending on the type you get things like a CIDR calculator showing network, netmask, broadcast and usable range; a port-to-service lookup; JSON pretty-printing and minification; base64 decoding; certificate parsing on the server; and openers that jump the selected path into the file explorer or the editor.

Every entry is either a local calculation or a command typed into your terminal. Nothing in this menu is an AI action, and nothing here bypasses the approval gate for commands the assistant proposed.

Theming¶

One palette ships: the NubeStack OpsPilot Infra Theme. Applying it sets the application's interface colours, the terminal's 16-colour ANSI palette and the editor's theme from the same definition, which is why the terminal, the editor and the chrome agree with each other. The theme also drives the colourisation applied to plain-text SSH output, so infrastructure keywords, status words and destructive commands stand out in output that arrived with no colour of its own.

Settings that change terminal behaviour¶

All of these live in Settings → Terminal.

Setting	Default	Notes
Font size	13 px	Applies to the terminal and the editor
Line height	1
Scrollback buffer	10,000 lines	Range 500–100,000
Cursor style	Bar	Block, bar or underline
Cursor blink	On
Copy on select	On
Right-click pastes clipboard	On	When no text is selected
Bell	None (silent)	Or visual flash, or sound
Minimum terminal height	220 px	The panel is resizable above this
Default shell	Per platform	Used by Local connections

Font size can also be changed from the tab context menu or with Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-; that applies to every open terminal, not just the active one, and to the editor when the editor has focus.

Scrollback¶

The scrollback buffer lives in the session's memory for as long as its tab is open. OpsPilot does not write it to a log file, a cache or a database, and it does not survive closing the tab. The only exceptions are ones you ask for explicitly: Save terminal output and Print terminal output on the tab context menu, which export the buffer at that moment to a location you choose.

There is therefore no stored session history on the workstation to expire or protect, and the assistant's view of a session is always built from the live buffer, passing through the redactor on the way out. See What gets sent.