# The browser terminal

> The terminal is a web page onto your pad. Everything below is in the page itself: there is no client to install and no ssh to configure.

Part of the reachpad docs: https://reachpad.dev/docs. Rendered page: https://reachpad.dev/docs/terminal.

## Tabs and panes

Workspace tabs run across the top; “new workspace” and “new window” open more. On a wide screen the terminal keeps a fixed width and the rest of the page is a side pane for previews, so a run and its output sit next to each other.

## Copy and paste

Select text in the terminal and it is in your clipboard when you release. No keybinding to learn, and it works on every device the terminal does.

## The preview pane

The preview pane renders files from your workspace: images and screenshots, SVG and Excalidraw diagrams, PDFs, and generated HTML or Markdown reports. When an agent produces a diagram or a report, you look at it in the page rather than downloading it. Use the files button to pick anything from `~/workspace`.

## On a phone

The same page, sized to the device, with touch keys for control, escape, tab and interrupt. Checking a run from a phone is a first-class path, not an emergency hatch; see [knowing when an agent needs you](https://reachpad.dev/docs/agent-status).