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Rig for Mac

Small Ghostty sidecar for creating, focusing, arranging, and tracking terminal sessions across projects.

By backnotprop. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Rig at a glance

Version
0.3.0
Released
14 May 2026
Download size
4.5 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
backnotprop
GitHub stars
326

How to install Rig on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Rig and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.3.0 from backnotprop's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Rig show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Rig-0.3.0-mac.dmg (4.5 MB).

What is new in Rig 0.3.0

## Fixes

- **Fix Automation permission on macOS 26**: release builds now preserve the `com.apple.security.automation.apple-events` entitlement. Previously the post-build codesign stripped it, so macOS silently blocked Rig from controlling Ghostty and the TCC prompt never appeared. (#2)
- Added entitlements verification step to the release pipeline to prevent this class of bug in future releases.

## Other

- Dual-licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0 (#4)

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