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Capability Reporting (OSC 1337) โ€‹

Category: extensions ยท Tags: Operating System Commands (OSC), Iterm2

OSC 1337 ; RequestCapabilities queries the terminal to report all its supported capabilities at once. The response is OSC 1337 ; Capabilities=... ST with a structured list of supported features. This provides a single-query alternative to probing individual features, though adoption is currently limited to iTerm2.
How this is tested: Send OSC 1337 ; RequestCapabilities, verify the terminal responds with a capabilities list.
Analysis2026-03-26

Not supported by any tested terminal. Not supported by: Ghostty, Kitty, iTerm2, Terminal.app. Part of the Rich TUI baseline.

Supported by 0 of 11 backends (0%)

Terminal Applications โ€‹

TerminalVersionSupportNotes
iTerm23.6.9โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
Ghostty1.3.1โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
VS Code1.112.0โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
Warp0.2026.03.18.08.24.03โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
Cursor2.6.21โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
Kitty0.46.2โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response
Terminal.app2.15โœ— noNo OSC 1337 capabilities response

Headless Backends โ€‹

Parser correctness only โ€” a โœ“ means the parser accepts the sequence.

BackendVersionSupportNotes
Alacritty0.26.0? unknown
vt1000.2.1? unknown
vterm0.2.0? unknown
WezTerm0.1.0-fork.5? unknown

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