PiloTY
PiloTY (PTY for your AI Copilot) is an MCP server that gives an agent a persistent, interactive terminal.
If you have used Claude Code / Codex to run shell commands, you have probably hit the same wall: tool calls tend to be stateless. Each call starts "fresh", so environment variables disappear, interactive programs cannot be driven reliably, and long-running processes get cut off or orphaned while the agent is thinking.
PiloTY exists to make the agent's terminal behave more like a human's: start something in a real terminal, come back later, and keep going.
Warning: PiloTY exposes unrestricted terminal access. Treat it like giving the agent your keyboard.
What it enables
- Long-running commands: builds, installs, migrations, test suites. Start once, check output later.
- Log monitoring:
tail -f,journalctl -f,kubectl logs -f, CI logs, service restarts. - "Vibe debugging": keep a REPL/debugger open while the agent reads code and tries ideas (
python,ipython,pdb). - Privileged operations: handle interactive password prompts (
sudo, SSH passwords, key passphrases). - SSH-based devops: keep a remote login session alive across tool calls; run remote commands in the same shell.
- Terminal UIs:
less,man,top,vimcan work, but cursor-heavy programs often require screen snapshots instead of plain text output.
