Terminal and browser

Sentinel ships with a built-in terminal panel and a built-in browser sidebar.

These are part of the normal app shell.

Terminal

The terminal lives in a bottom panel.

It supports:

• opening and closing the panel
• multiple sessions
• tab switching between sessions
• resizing the panel height
• closing sessions
• opening sessions in the workspace or repo path

The terminal is tied into the rest of the app. Repo actions can open it, and keyboard shortcuts can toggle it.

Browser

The browser lives in the right sidebar.

It supports:

• multiple tabs
• back and forward navigation
• reload and stop
• address input
• opening normal URLs
• turning plain text into a search query

The browser is built around the desktop runtime. It behaves more like an app webview than a browser tab in a website.

How they fit into the workflow

Both tools are there so you can stay in the thread while still doing the work around it.

That means you can:

• read a page without leaving the app
• run commands without switching windows
• inspect changes and keep the thread nearby

That is part of the general Sentinel shape. The app keeps the whole loop nearby.