Documentation

Documentation

Index of the tappty documentation.

Software Architecture, Design & Engineering by Nicholas J. Kisseberth.
Code Synthesized via Anthropic Claude Code / Opus 4.8.
Automated Code Review via OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT 5.5.

tappty is an instrumented-terminal toolkit — host a program on a pseudo-terminal, then observe, control, and render it in a terminal (CUI), a green-phosphor window (GUI), or a browser tab. Pick the document you need:

If you want to… Read
see it in action — screenshots + runnable demos Gallery
run the tapterm command — the CUI / GUI / web / headless modes, the terminal model, recordings, snapshots, recipes Command guide
build on the librarySession, the Sources, both Terminal backends, the bus, the renderers and compositor Programming reference
understand how it works inside, and why — the Source → Terminal → Session → renderer/bus pipeline, concurrency, the trust model Architecture & design
see when it started and what's changed Changelog

New to tappty? Start with the command guide. Writing your own tool on the engine — a logger, an automated driver, a custom renderer — is the reference. The source and issue tracker are on GitHub.