A focused, polished TUI for staging changes and viewing diffs without leaving the terminal. Named after Strix, the genus of owls known for sharp vision and quiet observation. It bridges the gap between heavy GUI source-control views (Cursor, Zed) and existing terminal tools (LazyGit, tig) that can feel cluttered or mouse-unfriendly.
strix my-repo main
╭ Changes ───────────────────╮╭ Diff · unified ──────────────────────╮
│ Staged ││ src/app.rs │
│ M src/app.rs ││ @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ │
│ Changes ││ 12 pub struct App { │
│ M src/ui/mod.rs ││ 13 pub repo_path: PathBuf, │
│ ? notes.txt ││ +14 pub focus: Focus, │
╰────────────────────────────╯╰──────────────────────────────────────╯
j/k move space stage d diff mode q quit
Two panes, mouse + keyboard, syntax-highlighted diffs, themeable. Built in Rust on ratatui, gitoxide, and syntect.
brew install charliek/tap/strixsudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://apt.stridelabs.ai/pubkey.gpg | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/apt-charliek.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/apt-charliek.gpg] https://apt.stridelabs.ai noble main' | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apt-charliek.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install strixDirect .deb downloads and building from source are in the
installation guide. strix shells out to
git, so it needs git on your PATH.
strix # open the repository in the current directory
strix path/to/repo # open a specific repository- Left pane — staged files (top) and unstaged + untracked files (bottom). Move files between sections to stage/unstage; reset a file back to HEAD.
- Right pane — a syntax-highlighted diff of the selected file, in unified or side-by-side mode.
Press i for the History view: a branch/merge rail graph of the current
branch on the left, commit details or file diffs (vs the commit's first parent)
on the right. Esc or i returns to staging.
See the keybindings for the full set.
The full site lives under docs/ and builds with mkdocs-material
(make docs-serve → http://127.0.0.1:7071):
CLAUDE.md at the repo root captures the project conventions.
MIT — see LICENSE.