Overview

What Foxora Shell is

Foxora Shell is the terminal your system was designed around. It's a standalone terminal emulator — titlebar, top bar, footer, tabs, panes — with the fur command plane wired in as a native command rather than an external tool.

• Standalone window — opens its own chrome on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
• Built in Rust — Ratatui + crossterm + tokio. One static binary, ~15–25 MB.
• Ships with fur — no separate install. Same binary, same output grammar everywhere.
• Uses your existing shell — bash / zsh / fish / PowerShell parse non-fur commands. Shell is the chrome and the fur layer.
• Beautiful by default — Ember theme, generous padding, semantic color grammar, JetBrains Mono.

Core pillars

• One command for the whole system — fur install / service / logs / system replace brew, systemctl, journalctl, and friends.
• A terminal that looks like a product — persistent top bar (cwd, fur version, git branch), persistent footer (status, identity), generous typography.
• Ambient AI — ⌘K opens the vixen overlay anywhere; fur explain, fur fix, fur ai.
• Services as first-class — one wrapper over systemd / launchd / Windows SCM. Same command everywhere.
• Cross-platform muscle memory — fur install postgres works the same on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

What Foxora Shell isn't

• Not a new shell language. You still write ls | grep foo | wc -l.
• Not Foxora-OS-only. Runs standalone on any platform.
• Not an Electron app. No Chromium, no 300 MB binary.
• Not a "VSCode in a terminal". No file tree, no editor — focused on commands.
• Not chat-first. AI is embedded but the primary interface is commands, not prompts.