We are excited to announce the first insider release of Termniq, an enhanced AI-powered operations terminal tool that seamlessly integrates infrastructure management, automation, and coding capabilities in one unified environment.

🎯 What is Termniq?

Termniq is an AI-enhanced operations terminal platform built on VSCodium, designed primarily for DevOps engineers and system administrators who need intelligent automation and infrastructure management capabilities. While maintaining full coding support, Termniq's core strength lies in bridging the gap between traditional terminal operations and modern AI-assisted workflow automation. This initial release introduces three core pillars that revolutionize how operations teams work.

✨ New Features

### 🌳 Operations Resource Tree Management

- Centralized Infrastructure View: Organize and visualize your entire infrastructure in an intuitive tree structure

- Operations-First Interface: Dedicated resource-only view mode that puts infrastructure management front and center

- Schema-Driven Resource Rendering: Flexible configuration system for different infrastructure components

- Extensible Resource Types: Pluggable architecture for servers, databases, containers, cloud services, and more

### 🔐 Server Authentication Support

- One-Time Authentication: Configure once, use forever - eliminates repeated password prompts

- Multiple Authentication Methods: - SSH public key authentication with automatic key generation - Password-free direct connections - Extensible driver system for custom authentication methods

- Interactive Configuration Wizard: Terminal-based setup with real SSH interaction support

- Secure Credential Storage: Safe storage of authentication data using the editor's built-in security features

- Connection Testing: Real-time validation of authentication configurations

- AI-Ready Automation: Enables AI assistants to execute commands without manual authentication

### 🤖 AI-Powered Operations Assistant

- Intelligent Infrastructure Management: AI assistant specialized in understanding and managing your operational environment

- Automated Command Generation: AI creates and executes infrastructure commands with your approval

- Operations-Aware Planning: Step-by-step automation workflows tailored for DevOps tasks

- Terminal-First Integration: Seamless execution of system commands, deployments, and maintenance tasks

- Multi-Provider AI Support: Works with Anthropic, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, and other leading AI providers

- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Connect with monitoring tools, cloud platforms, and automation services

- Persistent Operations Context: AI remembers your infrastructure setup and operational patterns

- Coding Support: Full development capabilities when you need to write scripts or modify configurations

🔧 Technical Highlights

- Terminal-Centric Architecture: Built for operations teams who live in the command line

- AI-Native Design: Every feature designed with AI automation in mind

- VSCodium Foundation: Leverages the power of a proven platform while maintaining operational focus

- Cross-Platform Ready: Initial macOS support with multi-platform potential

- Extensible Operations Framework: Modular design for adding new infrastructure integrations

- Security-First Approach: Enterprise-grade credential management and secure automation

🙏 Acknowledgments

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following projects that made Termniq possible:

### 🏗️ [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/) The powerful foundation that enables our operations-focused platform. VSCodium provides free/libre open source binaries with a robust extension system, allowing us to build specialized DevOps tooling on a proven, community-driven base.

### 🤖 [Cline](https://cline.bot/) Our AI assistant capabilities are inspired by and reference the excellent work done by the Cline project. Their thoughtful approach to AI-assisted development has significantly influenced our design philosophy.

🎯 Who Should Use Termniq?

- DevOps Engineers seeking AI-powered infrastructure automation and management

- System Administrators who want intelligent terminal operations with modern tooling

- SRE Engineers managing complex deployment pipelines and monitoring systems

- Cloud Engineers working across multiple cloud platforms and services

- Operations Teams looking to modernize their workflow with AI assistance

- Full-Stack Developers who also handle infrastructure and deployment responsibilities

🚀 Getting Started

1. Download the appropriate installer for your platform

2. Install Termniq following the standard installation process

3. Set up your infrastructure resources using the resource tree management

4. Configure authentication for your servers and services

5. Start automating your operations with the AI-powered assistant

6. Use the coding capabilities when you need to create or modify scripts

🔮 What's Next?

This initial release establishes the foundation for our vision of AI-powered operations automation. Future releases will expand platform support, add more infrastructure integrations, enhance AI automation capabilities, and introduce advanced monitoring and alerting features.

📞 Support

- Issues: Report bugs and request features on our GitHub repository
- Reddit: r/termniq

- Mail: exdovic@gmail.com