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TermDesk
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MIT-licensed; runs from source today; prebuilt signed installers are on the way
Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro
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- AI integrations
- Its built-in MCP server supports Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients for listing hosts and running commands; agent access is off by default and approval-gated.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Availability limit
- The site says TermDesk runs from source today and that prebuilt signed installers are on the way.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Keychain support
- The site names macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI and Linux libsecret as supported secret-storage systems.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Open source
- TermDesk is MIT-licensed, developed in public and available to build from source.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The site says there is no mandatory cloud account or telemetry and that hosts, keys and history stay on the user's machine.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- TermDesk is an open-source desktop app for SSH, SFTP, VNC and RDP with a local encrypted vault.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Remote desktop
- VNC sessions are tunneled over SSH, and Windows hosts connect over RDP with trust-on-first-use certificate pinning.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- The site says the renderer is sandboxed without Node access and secrets remain in the main process behind a Zod-validated IPC contract.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- SSH and SFTP
- It supports saved hosts, jump hosts, agent and port forwarding, drag-and-drop SFTP transfers, tabs, splits and tagged host groups.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- SSH configuration
- TermDesk reads the user's existing ~/.ssh/config.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site directs users to GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests and provides a contact form for other questions and security disclosures.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
- Vault storage
- Hosts, keys, snippets and known hosts are stored in a local SQLite vault, while passwords and passphrases are encrypted using the operating system keychain.termdesk.pro · read 5 Oct 2026
