ShellRS

ShellRS

A high-performance, native, cross-platform SSH client written in Rust, with a GPU-rendered interface: Xshell-style host management, WinSCP-style SFTP and port forwarding, all in one window.

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About

ShellRS brings Xshell-style host management and tabbed terminals, a WinSCP-style dual-pane SFTP browser and SSH port forwarding together in one cross-platform app, which bastion hosts such as JumpServer can launch the way they launch Xshell and WinSCP. It is written in Rust, and its UI is built on GPUI, the GPU-accelerated UI framework of the Zed editor (through gpui-kit (opens in a new tab)). There is no Electron and no JVM.

Hosts, groups, credentials and forwarding rules live in a local SQLite database. Passwords and key passphrases go only into the system keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Secret Service); the database never holds a secret. ShellRS also ships a shellrs command that lets AI agents such as Claude Code or Codex run commands and transfer files on your saved hosts without ever seeing a password.

Features

Hosts

• Groups nest to any depth; drag to rearrange, type to search.
• The remote OS is detected on connect and shown as a badge in the host tree and on tabs (Linux distributions, the BSDs, macOS, Windows).
• Three ways to log in: password; no password (the server's none auth, then the SSH agent, then the default keys in ~/.ssh); or a saved credential.
• Three ways to connect: directly, through a chain of SSH jump hosts, or through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy. Terminals, SFTP, port forwards and the CLI all follow it.
• "Test connection" performs a real login and explains any failure.
• Besides SSH: Telnet hosts for switches, console servers and lab devices, with automatic login at the device's prompts and the same jump hosts and proxies; and serial ports of this computer, for console cables and debug ports.

Terminal

• Tabbed remote and local terminals (built on alacritty_terminal); full-screen programs like vim and htop work as expected.
• Each tab shows the SSH round-trip latency live.
• Find (smart case) and local clear; configurable font, size and line height.
• ZMODEM: rz and sz upload and download files right in the terminal, over SSH, Telnet or a serial line; drop files on a terminal to upload them.
• Drag tabs into side-by-side or stacked splits to watch a terminal and SFTP together.

Right sidebar tools

• They follow the current remote terminal and read and run on that terminal's own connection, with no second login. ⌘⌥B (Ctrl+Alt+B elsewhere) shows or hides them.