Use ShellYard for internal APIs, SSH sessions, databases, diagnostics, docs, and AI-assisted troubleshooting — from one desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
HTTP through SSH
Open an SSH session to a jump host. Pick that session as the route for an HTTP request. Hit an internal-only API and inspect response, timing, headers, and errors — without ssh -L, kubectl port-forward, or a VPN client. Postman v2.1, OpenAPI 3.x, cURL, and HAR imports work as expected.
GraphQL and realtime
Side-by-side query + variables editor for GraphQL. WebSocket and Server-Sent Events for realtime. Realtime collections, like REST, route through active SSH sessions when the endpoint is internal-only.
Data Inspector
Open a database connection, run a query, inspect the schema, watch a Health dashboard (active sessions, locks, slow queries) — all in the same window as the SSH session and the API client. Six engines including T-SQL on Microsoft SQL Server (Pro and above). No context switch to a separate IDE.
SSH and local terminal
Saved SSH connections, key-based or password auth (with scoped credentials from the vault), SCP / SFTP file transfer, and a local terminal that opens in the active Space's working directory. Tabs and panes for parallel sessions.
Docs and runbooks
Notes, runbooks, incident reports, and IPAM records inside the Space. Capture the curl that worked, the query that explained the slowness, the config diff that fixed the bug — and the next engineer finds it next to the connection.
Cloud Shells
A local terminal per profile with the provider CLI pre-authenticated from the Space's stored credentials. Point at an existing ~/.aws named profile and your SSO and assume-role chains work exactly as they do in your own shell — ShellYard never holds the key. Every shell opens with the resolved identity printed, which is the check that stops you running against the wrong account. Pro and above.
Connectors (MCP)
ShellYard runs as a local MCP server, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or a local Ollama-backed client drives your inventory, documents, and read-only device commands on its own model subscription — one claude mcp add away. Bound to localhost with a per-install bearer token; anything that changes state pauses for an approval modal inside ShellYard. Pro and above.
Magellan
Attach an HTTP response, a slow query, a packet capture, a config diff, or a log line — Magellan explains what happened and helps draft the documentation. BYO Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini / Ollama key. ShellYard takes no AI markup.
Private infrastructure
Behind a jump host. Inside a customer VPN. On a lab subnet. Behind staging. ShellYard is designed for the work that doesn't happen on the public internet — and keeps the connection, request, response, and runbook together when it does.
Free covers SSH, terminal, network diagnostics, HTTP / GraphQL / Realtime, SQLite, and Magellan with your provider key. Pro adds cloud sync, all database engines, HTTP collections, and Shared Spaces.