diff --git a/include/ghostty.h b/include/ghostty.h
index 163044c1b..70428c89f 100644
--- a/include/ghostty.h
+++ b/include/ghostty.h
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ typedef void (*ghostty_runtime_write_clipboard_cb)(void *, const char *);
 typedef void (*ghostty_runtime_new_split_cb)(void *, ghostty_split_direction_e);
 typedef void (*ghostty_runtime_close_surface_cb)(void *, bool);
 typedef void (*ghostty_runtime_focus_split_cb)(void *, ghostty_split_focus_direction_e);
+typedef void (*ghostty_runtime_goto_tab_cb)(void *, int32_t);
 
 typedef struct {
     void *userdata;
@@ -249,6 +250,7 @@ typedef struct {
     ghostty_runtime_new_split_cb new_split_cb;
     ghostty_runtime_close_surface_cb close_surface_cb;
     ghostty_runtime_focus_split_cb focus_split_cb;
+    ghostty_runtime_goto_tab_cb goto_tab_cb;
 } ghostty_runtime_config_s;
 
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/macos/Sources/ContentView.swift b/macos/Sources/ContentView.swift
index eb938cc2e..d53951d47 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/ContentView.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/ContentView.swift
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ struct ContentView: View {
                     NSApplication.shared.reply(toApplicationShouldTerminate: true)
                 }
         case .ready:
+            let center = NotificationCenter.default
+            let gotoTab = center.publisher(for: Ghostty.Notification.ghosttyGotoTab)
+            
             let confirmQuitting = Binding<Bool>(get: {
                 self.appDelegate.confirmQuit && (self.window?.isKeyWindow ?? false)
             }, set: {
@@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ struct ContentView: View {
             Ghostty.TerminalSplit(onClose: Self.closeWindow)
                 .ghosttyApp(ghostty.app!)
                 .background(WindowAccessor(window: $window))
+                .onReceive(gotoTab) { onGotoTab(notification: $0) }
                 .confirmationDialog(
                     "Quit Ghostty?",
                     isPresented: confirmQuitting) {
@@ -57,4 +61,27 @@ struct ContentView: View {
         guard let currentWindow = NSApp.keyWindow else { return }
         currentWindow.close()
     }
+        
+    private func onGotoTab(notification: SwiftUI.Notification) {
+        // Notification center indiscriminately sends to every subscriber (makes sense)
+        // but we only want to process this once. In order to process it once lets only
+        // handle it if we're the focused window.
+        guard let window = self.window else { return }
+        guard window.isKeyWindow else { return }
+        
+        // Get the tab index from the notification
+        guard let tabIndexAny = notification.userInfo?[Ghostty.Notification.GotoTabKey] else { return }
+        guard let tabIndex = tabIndexAny as? Int32 else { return }
+        
+        guard let windowController = window.windowController else { return }
+        guard let tabGroup = windowController.window?.tabGroup else { return }
+        let tabbedWindows = tabGroup.windows
+        
+        // Tabs are 0-indexed here, so we subtract one from the key the user hit.
+        let adjustedIndex = Int(tabIndex - 1);
+        guard adjustedIndex >= 0 && adjustedIndex < tabbedWindows.count else { return }
+        
+        let targetWindow = tabbedWindows[adjustedIndex]
+        targetWindow.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil)
+    }
 }
diff --git a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
index 4a76e9a9d..6a8e3ec5c 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/AppState.swift
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ extension Ghostty {
                 write_clipboard_cb: { userdata, str in AppState.writeClipboard(userdata, string: str) },
                 new_split_cb: { userdata, direction in AppState.newSplit(userdata, direction: direction) },
                 close_surface_cb: { userdata, processAlive in AppState.closeSurface(userdata, processAlive: processAlive) },
-                focus_split_cb: { userdata, direction in AppState.focusSplit(userdata, direction: direction) }
+                focus_split_cb: { userdata, direction in AppState.focusSplit(userdata, direction: direction) },
+                goto_tab_cb: { userdata, n in AppState.gotoTab(userdata, n: n) }
             )
 
             // Create the ghostty app.
@@ -157,6 +158,17 @@ extension Ghostty {
             )
         }
         
+        static func gotoTab(_ userdata: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?, n: Int32) {
+            guard let surface = self.surfaceUserdata(from: userdata) else { return }
+            NotificationCenter.default.post(
+                name: Notification.ghosttyGotoTab,
+                object: surface,
+                userInfo: [
+                    Notification.GotoTabKey: n,
+                ]
+            )
+        }
+        
         static func readClipboard(_ userdata: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) -> UnsafePointer<CChar>? {
             guard let appState = self.appState(fromSurface: userdata) else { return nil }
             guard let str = NSPasteboard.general.string(forType: .string) else { return nil }
diff --git a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Package.swift b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Package.swift
index 535fa1e67..e3c9c5a1f 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Package.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/Ghostty/Package.swift
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ extension Ghostty.Notification {
     /// Focus previous/next split. Has a SplitFocusDirection in the userinfo.
     static let ghosttyFocusSplit = Notification.Name("com.mitchellh.ghostty.focusSplit")
     static let SplitDirectionKey = ghosttyFocusSplit.rawValue
+    
+    /// Goto tab. Has tab index in the userinfo.
+    static let ghosttyGotoTab = Notification.Name("com.mitchellh.ghostty.gotoTab")
+    static let GotoTabKey = ghosttyGotoTab.rawValue
 }
 
 // Make the input enum hashable.
diff --git a/macos/Sources/GhosttyApp.swift b/macos/Sources/GhosttyApp.swift
index c5a1e7fa1..85845dd02 100644
--- a/macos/Sources/GhosttyApp.swift
+++ b/macos/Sources/GhosttyApp.swift
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ struct GhosttyApp: App {
         WindowGroup {
             ContentView(ghostty: ghostty)
         }
+
         .backport.defaultSize(width: 800, height: 600)
+
         .commands {
             CommandGroup(after: .newItem) {
                 Button("New Tab", action: Self.newTab).keyboardShortcut("t", modifiers: [.command])
diff --git a/src/apprt/embedded.zig b/src/apprt/embedded.zig
index 43886df57..7289b2401 100644
--- a/src/apprt/embedded.zig
+++ b/src/apprt/embedded.zig
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ pub const App = struct {
 
         /// Focus the previous/next split (if any).
         focus_split: ?*const fn (SurfaceUD, input.SplitFocusDirection) callconv(.C) void = null,
+
+        /// Goto tab
+        goto_tab: ?*const fn (SurfaceUD, usize) callconv(.C) void = null,
     };
 
     core_app: *CoreApp,
@@ -359,6 +362,15 @@ pub const Surface = struct {
         };
     }
 
+    pub fn gotoTab(self: *Surface, n: usize) void {
+        const func = self.app.opts.goto_tab orelse {
+            log.info("runtime embedder does not goto_tab", .{});
+            return;
+        };
+
+        func(self.opts.userdata, n);
+    }
+
     /// The cursor position from the host directly is in screen coordinates but
     /// all our interface works in pixels.
     fn cursorPosToPixels(self: *const Surface, pos: apprt.CursorPos) !apprt.CursorPos {