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Jack in

Focus a server and press Enter (or Jack in in its panel). The camera dives through the tower's skin and a full-screen terminal opens on a real shell: an interactive PTY on the SSH connection the city already holds, rendered with xterm.js.

A terminal opened on a server

  • Resize the window: the terminal follows.
  • Ctrl+Shift+X leaves the terminal and surfaces back to the tower. Esc and Ctrl+K belong to the shell while you are inside.
  • The dive takes under half a second, and any key skips it.

A terminal needs a live connection: an offline or unknown server has no shell to open, and databases and buckets have none at all.

What is recorded​

The audit log records that a terminal was opened and closed, on which server and when. What you type inside a PTY is not recorded: that is not reliably possible, and GRIDCITY does not claim it.