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<h1>purple<span class="dot">.</span><span class="cursor h1-cursor"></span> <span class="h1-sub">One terminal. All your servers.</span></h1>
<h2 class="tagline">Open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor for macOS and Linux. Search, connect, transfer files and manage containers. All from one TUI.</h2>
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<span class="terminal-title">purple</span>
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<span class="prompt-char">$</span>
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<div>Downloading purple v2.37.0 for darwin-arm64...</div>
<div>Installing to /usr/local/bin/purple... <span class="success">done.</span></div>
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<div><span class="prompt-char-dim">$</span> brew install erickochen/purple/purple</div>
<div><span class="prompt-char-dim">$</span> cargo install purple-ssh</div>
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<p>I had a perfectly good SSH config. Clean, well-organized, no complaints. That part worked.</p>
<p>What didn't work was the six other things I needed to do every day. Every container check was <code>ssh</code>, <code>docker ps</code>, scroll, repeat. Every file transfer was remembering <code>scp</code> flags. Every new cloud VM meant opening a console, copying an IP, editing my config by hand. And running the same command across a dozen hosts? That was either a bash loop or a whole Ansible setup for a one-liner.</p>
<p><strong>So I put all of it in one terminal.</strong></p>
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<span class="feat-icon">🔍</span>
<span class="feat-text"><strong>Find any host in a keystroke.</strong> Fuzzy matching across hostnames, IPs, tags and users. Your most-used servers float to the top automatically. Press <code>:</code> for a command palette with all 24 actions.</span>
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<span class="feat-text"><strong>Pull servers from 16 cloud providers.</strong> AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Proxmox VE, Tailscale and 9 more. New VMs sync in, IPs stay current, decommissioned hosts get flagged.</span>
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<span class="feat-text"><strong>See and control containers remotely.</strong> Docker and Podman over plain SSH. Start, stop, restart without installing anything on the remote.</span>
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<span class="feat-text"><strong>Browse and copy files between machines.</strong> Dual-pane file explorer. Local filesystem on one side, remote on the other. Handles ProxyJump chains and tunnels.</span>
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<span class="feat-icon">⚡</span>
<span class="feat-text"><strong>Run one command on many hosts.</strong> Pick a snippet, select your targets, execute. Results stream in per host.</span>
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<span class="feat-text"><strong>Passwords handled for you.</strong> Plugs into OS Keychain, 1Password, Bitwarden, pass, the HashiCorp Vault KV secrets engine or a custom script. Credentials are fetched at connect time.</span>
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<span class="feat-icon">📜</span>
<span class="feat-text"><strong>Short-lived SSH certificates.</strong> Integrates with the HashiCorp Vault SSH secrets engine. Configure a role per host or per provider, press V to bulk-sign. Cached under ~/.purple/certs with automatic renewal.</span>
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<span class="feat-icon">🤖</span>
<span class="feat-text"><strong>Let AI agents manage your servers.</strong> Built-in MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor and other tools get direct access to your hosts and containers.</span>
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<div class="providers-label">Cloud providers</div>
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<li>AWS EC2</li>
<li>Azure</li>
<li>DigitalOcean</li>
<li>GCP</li>
<li>Hetzner</li>
<li>i3D.net</li>
<li>Leaseweb</li>
<li>Linode</li>
<li>Oracle Cloud</li>
<li>OVHcloud</li>
<li>Proxmox VE</li>
<li>Scaleway</li>
<li>Tailscale</li>
<li>TransIP</li>
<li>UpCloud</li>
<li>Vultr</li>
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<div class="faq-label">FAQ</div>
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<div class="man-head"><span>PURPLE(1)</span><span>General Commands Manual</span><span>PURPLE(1)</span></div>
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<summary>Does purple modify my SSH config?</summary>
<div class="answer">Only when you explicitly add, edit, delete or sync. All writes are atomic with automatic backups. Comments, indentation and unknown directives are preserved.</div>
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<summary>Does it need a daemon or background process?</summary>
<div class="answer">No. Single binary. Run it, use it, close it.</div>
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<summary>Does it send my config anywhere?</summary>
<div class="answer">No. Your config never leaves your machine. Provider sync calls cloud APIs to fetch server lists. The TUI checks GitHub for new releases on startup (cached 24 hours). That's it.</div>
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<summary>Can I manage Docker containers with purple?</summary>
<div class="answer">Yes. Press <code>C</code> on any host to list all containers over SSH. Start, stop, restart. Auto-detects Docker or Podman. No agent, no web UI, no extra ports.</div>
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<summary>Can AI assistants use purple?</summary>
<div class="answer">Yes. Run <code>purple mcp</code> to start the MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor and other agents get five tools: list_hosts, get_host, run_command, list_containers and container_action.</div>
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<summary>How do I troubleshoot connection problems?</summary>
<div class="answer">Run with <code>--verbose</code> to enable debug logging, then <code>purple logs --tail</code> in another terminal. Logs are written to <code>~/.purple/purple.log</code> with fault domain prefixes: <code>[external]</code> for remote/tool errors, <code>[config]</code> for local config issues. Set <code>PURPLE_LOG=trace</code> for maximum detail.</div>
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<div class="man-foot"><span>purple v2.37.0</span><span>2026-04-14</span><span>PURPLE(1)</span></div>
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