Conduit

Conduit is a local-first terminal workspace for SSH, Mosh, SFTP, and local shells.

It is built for people who need terminals from a phone without creating an account, syncing credentials through a service, or paying a subscription to open a shell.

Connect to remote machines over SSH or Mosh, browse files with SFTP, or run a full Arch Linux shell right on the device - pacman and all - with no root and no remote server.

Features:

• SSH terminal sessions
• Local Arch Linux shell on-device (Android, arm64) with pacman, running unprivileged through proot - no root, no server; downloads an Arch Linux ARM image on first use
• Mosh roaming for unreliable mobile networks
• Tmux auto attach/create per host, with start directories, prefix keys, action shortcuts, and scrollback mode
• SFTP file browsing and export
• Import SSH private keys from a file, or generate an Ed25519 key on device
• Optional passphrase encryption for generated keys, with public-key copy and export
• OpenSSH FIDO hardware-key authentication, tested with YubiKey, with multiple hardware keys per host tried in turn
• External authentication that lets the SSH server authenticate you without saved credentials
• USB and NFC support for CTAP-compatible security keys
• Saved machine profiles with tags, search, and sorting by last connected, name, or date added
• Local credential and trusted host key storage
• Trusted host key prompts and key management
• App lock with device authentication when supported
• Tabbed terminal workspace
• Customizable key row with modifier, navigation, and function keys, key repeat, latching modifiers, and your own text and control-key shortcuts
• Fullscreen terminal mode
• Terminal themes
• Background keepalive through a foreground service

Conduit does not require a Conduit account and does not use a Conduit sync service. Saved connection profiles, credentials, and trusted host keys are stored on device using platform secure storage.

Mosh support requires mosh-server on the remote host and reachable UDP ports. Predictive echo is experimental and opt-in.

The local Arch Linux shell uses tooling packaged by Termux, including proot, proot-distro, busybox, tar, xz, and supporting libraries. Conduit's own source is Apache-2.0; bundled third-party components keep their own licenses. Source-offer details are in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES and third_party/source-offer.