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amphp/ssh
=========

Async SSH client for PHP based on Amp.

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Amp SSH
=======

[](#amp-ssh)

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`amphp/ssh` provides asynchronous SSH client for [Amp](https://github.com/amphp/amp).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This package can be installed as a [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) dependency.

```
composer require amphp/ssh
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 7.0+
- [libsodium extension](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-php), included by default in PHP since 7.2

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

See the `examples` directory.

Versioning
----------

[](#versioning)

`amphp/ssh` follows the [semver](http://semver.org/) semantic versioning specification like all other `amphp` packages.

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [`LICENSE`](./LICENSE) for more information.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

A lot of work on this lib would not have been possible with previous awesome folks implementing this specification in PHP:

- [PHPSeclib](https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib)
- [PHP Encrypted Streams](https://github.com/jeskew/php-encrypted-streams)

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance17

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity40

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 55.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1628287?v=4)[Aaron Piotrowski](/maintainers/Trowski)[@trowski](https://github.com/trowski)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/12852217f3369e8144bc9ce6ac2a2341c28c5512c5b3df5749bfbbd45b6877ff?d=identicon)[kelunik](/maintainers/kelunik)

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Top Contributors

[![joelwurtz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/90466?v=4)](https://github.com/joelwurtz "joelwurtz (43 commits)")[![Ekstazi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/992738?v=4)](https://github.com/Ekstazi "Ekstazi (31 commits)")[![kelunik](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2743004?v=4)](https://github.com/kelunik "kelunik (4 commits)")

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Tags

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