tl;dr: Ghostel is an Emacs terminal emulator that uses libghostty-vt (the VT engine from the Ghostty terminal) via a Zig-based native dynamic module, with Elisp handling keymaps, buffers, and remote integration. Inspired by emacs-libvterm, it brings modern features libvterm lacks—Kitty keyboard and graphics protocols, OSC 8 hyperlinks, synchronized output, inline images, and OSC 4/10/11 color queries—along with five eat.el-style input modes, TRAMP support, shell integration for bash/zsh/fish/nushell, and password prompt detection. Pre-built binaries auto-download on first use, so no toolchain is required.