purple

A terminal cockpit for your servers. Search, connect, transfer files, manage containers and run commands across hosts. All keyboard-driven. Free and open source.

Install

curl -fsSL getpurple.sh | sh

brew install erickochen/purple/purple

cargo install purple-ssh

git clone https://github.com/erickochen/purple.git
cd purple && cargo build --release

Run purple. Press ? on any screen for help. That's it.

Why I built this

My SSH config was fine. Proper aliases, ProxyJump chains, organized by provider. Not the problem.

The problem was everything around it. Need to check a container? ssh host docker ps. Copy a file? scp with the right flags. Run the same command on ten hosts? Write a loop or boot up Ansible for a one-liner. Spin up a VM on Hetzner? Open the console, grab the IP, edit config, save. Someone asks which box runs what? Good luck.

I wanted one place for all of that. So I built it.

What you get

And more. Visual file transfer with split-pane explorer. Multi-host command execution with snippets. Automatic password retrieval from OS Keychain, 1Password, Bitwarden, pass and HashiCorp Vault. MCP server for AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor. See the wiki for details.

How it works

purple reads ~/.ssh/config directly. No database, no daemon, no account. Comments, indentation, Include files, unknown directives. All preserved.

Written in Rust. Single binary. 5000+ tests. MIT license.

Links

📖 Wiki · ☁️ Cloud Providers · 🤖 MCP Server · ❓ FAQ · 🔒 Security · 🧠 llms.txt

Feedback

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