A lazygit-style terminal file explorer
lazyexplorer is a small, focused terminal explorer built to live in the pane beside your agent. It refreshes live as files change — and never loses your place.
brew install nguyenvanduocit/tap/lazyexplorer
Coding agents touch dozens of files a minute.
Your editor's sidebar lags behind, your ls goes stale the moment you run it, and git status only tells you half the story. lazyexplorer sits in the pane beside the agent and shows the project as it actually is, right now — folders, files, rendered previews — refreshing every second without you lifting a finger.
It is not your editor and not a full file manager. It does one job: let you glance over and instantly see what just changed. Smaller on purpose, so it fits the cramped pane where you actually keep it.
Polls the directory once a second and rebuilds only when something actually changed. When your agent adds, edits, or deletes a file it appears at once — and your cursor stays on the file you were reading, matched by name, not by position. Delete the folder you're standing in and it climbs to the nearest surviving parent instead of breaking.
Launch it in a directory and that becomes the ceiling. Dive into subfolders freely, but never wander above the project root — so it stays scoped to exactly what the agent is editing, and a stray keypress can't walk you into /etc.
Markdown is rendered, not dumped — headings, lists, and code blocks come through with styling. Source files are shown as source, directories as listings. Glance at a file's contents in the right pane without ever opening it.
lazygit-style keys for the keyboard crowd — j/k to move, enter to open, h to go up. Or reach for the mouse: click a row, click a folder again to open it, drag the divider, scroll with the wheel, click a breadcrumb to jump. Both work, always.
$ 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 --version # print version and exit