a lazygit-style terminal file explorer
lazyexplorer is a deliberately small terminal explorer that sits in the pane beside your agent — just the tree and a preview. Nothing to configure, no panels to arrange, nothing competing for your attention — small enough to forget it's even open.
brew install nguyenvanduocit/tap/lazyexplorer
Less tooling, not more.
Working with an agent already crowds the screen — its output, diffs, tool calls, your own shell. Reach for a heavyweight file manager or a second editor beside it and you're managing windows instead of doing the work.
lazyexplorer goes the other way: one small pane with the tree and a rendered preview, and nothing else to arrange or learn. Glance, see where things stand, get back to the agent. Small on purpose, so it stays out of the way instead of becoming one more thing to manage.
Markdown is rendered through glamour — headings, lists, tables, inline code. Source is syntax-highlighted through chroma. Directories show as listings. One pane, every file type, read the way it's meant to be — without opening a thing. Long lines scroll sideways, or press w to wrap.
Press / to fuzzy-find any file in the tree, however deep, and jump straight to it. Press ctrl+p for the command palette — reload, copy the selected path (to paste into the agent's chat), or cd anywhere inside the jail. The two moves you reach for most, a keystroke away.
Run it with --split and it opens a pane right next to the one you're in — tmux, zellij, WezTerm, Kitty, Ghostty, or iTerm2 — then runs there and leaves your prompt free. The file tree ends up exactly where you want it: alongside the agent, not on top of it.
$ brew install nguyenvanduocit/tap/lazyexplorer
hashicorp/tap/terraform,
argoproj/tap/argo). Prefer a shorter form? Tap once, then install short:
$ brew tap nguyenvanduocit/tap # one-time $ brew install lazyexplorer # short from now on $ brew upgrade lazyexplorer # later
$ go install github.com/nguyenvanduocit/lazyexplorer@latest
$GOBIN.$ curl -sSL github.com/nguyenvanduocit/lazyexplorer/releases/latest # pick your arch
checksums.txt alongside.
$ cd your-project $ lazyexplorer # explore the current directory $ lazyexplorer ./docs # or point it somewhere — that becomes the root $ lazyexplorer --split # open in a split pane beside this one $ lazyexplorer --version # print version and exit