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🚧 (Alpha stage software) This program is in rapid development and may break or change frequently! 🚧

Installation

Unix

# Need to include -L to follow redirects as this returns 301
curl -L https://sh.distant.dev | sh

# Can also use wget to the same result
wget https://sh.distant.dev | sh

See https://distant.dev/getting-started/installation/unix/ for more details.

Windows

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
irm sh.distant.dev | iex

See https://distant.dev/getting-started/installation/windows/ for more details.

Usage

# Start a manager in the background
distant manager listen &

# SSH into a server, start distant, and connect to the distant server
distant launch ssh://example.com

# Read the current working directory
distant fs read .

# Start a shell on the remote machine
distant shell

See https://distant.dev/getting-started/usage/ for more details.

License

This project is licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or apache-license) MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or mit-license) at your option.

Extension points exported contracts — how you extend this code

Codec (Interface)

Represents abstraction that implements specific encoder and decoder logic to transform an arbitrary collection of bytes. [12 …

distant-net/src/common/transport/framed/codec.rs

ProcessKiller (Interface)

Represents interface that can be used to kill a remote process [5 implementers]

distant-local/src/api/process.rs

DistantApi (Interface)

(no doc) [8 implementers]

distant-core/src/api.rs

AuthHandler (Interface)

(no doc) [8 implementers]

distant-auth/src/handler.rs

SshAuthHandler (Interface)

(no doc) [3 implementers]

distant-ssh2/src/lib.rs

ServerHandler (Interface)

(no doc) [13 implementers]

distant-net/src/server.rs

ProcessPty (Interface)

Represents interface that can be used to work with a pty associated with a process [3 implementers]

distant-local/src/api/process.rs

DistantChannelExt (Interface)

Provides convenience functions on top of a [`Channel`] [1 implementers]

distant-core/src/client/ext.rs

Core symbols most depended-on inside this repo

path

called by 139

distant-local/src/api/state/watcher/path.rs

channel

called by 137

distant-local/src/api/process/wait.rs

map

called by 132

distant-net/src/client/channel/mailbox.rs

path

called by 121

distant-net/src/server/ref/unix.rs

insert

called by 118

distant-net/src/common/keychain.rs

write_str

called by 111

distant-core/src/client/lsp.rs

clone

called by 105

distant-net/src/server/reply.rs

write_frame_for

called by 99

distant-net/src/common/transport/framed.rs

Shape

Method 1,307

Function 1,026

Class 275

Enum 67

Interface 28

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distant-local/src/api.rs100 symbols

distant-net/src/common/transport/framed.rs97 symbols

distant-net/src/common/destination/parser.rs73 symbols

src/options.rs71 symbols

distant-ssh2/tests/ssh2/client.rs66 symbols

distant-core/src/client/process.rs55 symbols

distant-local/src/api/state/search.rs54 symbols

distant-ssh2/tests/sshd/mod.rs48 symbols

distant-core/src/client/lsp/msg.rs45 symbols

distant-core/src/client/lsp.rs45 symbols

distant-net/src/common/connection.rs41 symbols

distant-protocol/src/common/search.rs40 symbols

For agents

$ claude mcp add distant \
  -- python -m otcore.mcp_server <graph>

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