It is a *terminal*, full stop: PTY panes, tabs and splits, themes, keymaps, plugins, profiles. The AI is woven into the shell itself through one idea: > 💡 **Everything is a terminal command.** No settings UI, no side apps — you type > `@`-commands at your normal prompt and edit TOML files. ```text ❯ @ai find the 5 biggest files under src and sort them ❯ press Enter to run (or edit) ❯ du -a src | sort -rn | head -5 ❯ @coder "add a --json flag to the export command" # a full agentic run ❯ @flow review "the auth module" # a multi-step workflow ❯ @loop "make the tests pass" --check "cargo test" # iterate until verified ❯ @flow implement --bg "migrate configs to TOML" # …in the background ❯ @job # monitor runs + logs ❯ @profile switch work # live profile switch ``` ## 🌟 Highlights - 🦀 **A real terminal, built from nothing** — a from-scratch VT engine, PTY, GPU renderer, TOML/JSON parsers, regex engine, BM25 ranker, HTTP transport. The dependency list is empty, and CI keeps it that way. - ✂️ **Native-feel editing** — `⌥/⌘ arrows` jump by word / to the line ends, `⇧`+arrows **select on the command line** (a light band, your syntax colors stay on top), typing replaces the selection, `Esc` cancels, `⌘C` copies. All of it is a zsh plugin (`lineedit`), not hardcoded terminal magic. - 🧘 **Calm, stable rendering** — steady block cursor (`bar`/`underline` one config line away), ghost-free damage-tracked frames, burst-settled presents, an idle event loop that uses near-zero CPU. - 🔋 **31 builtin plugins, all data** — prompt, autosuggest, syntax highlighting, completion, history, git (100+ aliases), docker, kubernetes, extract, jump, sudo, clipboard (OSC 52), … Each is a `plugin.toml` + optional shell snippet; disable any with `@plugin disable `. - 🎨 **19 live themes** — `@theme ` restyles the window, the prompt, syntax colors and `ls` colors from any shell, instantly. - 👤 **Profiles that mean it** — per-profile config overlay + saved workspace (tabs, splits, per-pane cwd/zoom, styled scrollback). `@profile switch work` from any shell; the window follows live. - 🛡️ **AI with guardrails** — provider-agnostic streaming engine, weighted multi-model pools, agents/skills/prompts as Markdown, flows as TOML, BM25 memory, MCP, sub-agents — behind a command guard (allow/deny/confirm) and secret redaction on every egress path. AI is **off** until you declare a model.

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2mo ago

The AI terminal space is getting interesting. Curious—what workflow makes someone stick with aiTerminal after the first week instead of going back to their normal terminal setup?

1mo ago

@aryan787544 my principle is simple… If I stick to it, probably users will do so :) , it becomes my default terminal!

aiTerminal

A fast, light, AI-first terminal.

A fast, light, AI-first terminal.