Overview

A Clojure library for SSH support, API compatible with bbssh.

clojuressh is a port of the bbssh babashka pod into a native Clojure library. A local installation of ssh is not required.

This library when loaded into babashka acts as a shim to the bbssh pod. Thus you can refer to this in your bb-deps.edn and use it like you would in clojure, allowing you to write one codebase that will run on both clojure and babashka. You can also refer to it in your clojure deps.edn or project.clj and use it the same way.

Coordinates

tools.deps

io.epiccastle/clojuressh {:mvn/version "0.7.0"}

leiningen

[io.epiccastle/clojuressh "0.7.0"]

Quickstart on clojure

Here is a simple example that connects over ssh, runs a command, and disconnects, returning the standard output. Put this in src/testssh/core.clj:

(ns testssh.core
  (:require [clojuressh.core :as clojuressh]
            [clojuressh.session :as session]))

(defn -main []
  (let [session (clojuressh/ssh "localhost")]
    (-> (clojuressh/exec session "echo 'I am running remotely'" {:out :string})
        deref
        :out
        prn)
    (session/disconnect session)
    (shutdown-agents)))

Make a deps.edn like:

{:paths ["src"]
 :deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.12.5"}
        io.epiccastle/clojuressh {:mvn/version "0.7.0"}}}

Run your mainline with:

clj -M -m testssh.core

Running on babashka

Using the same src/testssh/core.clj and deps.edn shown above, run your mainline with:

bb --config deps.edn -m testssh.core

Copyright

Copyright 2026 (c) Crispin Wellington. All rights reserved.

The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which can be found in LICENSE.