Warp

// Overview

Warp is an agentic development environment that grew out of a terminal. You can drive its own built-in coding agent, or bring your own CLI agent — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and others run inside it. The client codebase is open source and lives in the warpdotdev/warp repository, where the UI framework crates (`warpui_core` and `warpui`) are MIT-licensed and the rest of the code is AGPL v3; OpenAI is the founding sponsor of that open-source repository.

Alongside the desktop app, Warp ships the Warp Agent CLI: a standalone install of the same coding agent that runs in other terminals — Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, Windows Terminal and macOS Terminal. It acts as a multiplexer across agent sessions, can operate on remote machines with no remote binary install, and supports multi-agent orchestration and handoff to cloud agents. Frontier and open-weight models are built in, and you can point it at a custom model router or bring your own API keys.

Development of the repository itself is unusually public: Warp Factories are code-defined agent pipelines that triage issues, write specs, implement changes and review pull requests, and build.warp.dev shows those agent sessions, in-flight features and top contributors live. Contribution is issue-first — maintainers apply `ready-to-spec` and `ready-to-implement` labels to signal which issues are open for design or code. Usage is commercial: the announcement lists a Warp subscription from $18/month including a $20 inference credit, ad-hoc credits from $10, or your own API key.

// What it does

• A built-in coding agent plus first-class support for third-party CLI agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI
• Warp Agent CLI: a standalone install that runs in Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, Windows Terminal and macOS Terminal
• Session multiplexing across agent sessions, and remote execution with no remote binary to install
• Frontier and open-weight models built in, with custom model routers and bring-your-own API keys
• Multi-agent orchestration and handoff of work to cloud agents
• Warp Factories — code-defined agent pipelines with evals and benchmarks that drive the repository's own issue-to-PR flow

// Getting started

Install the Warp app for the full environment, or the standalone Agent CLI to use the agent inside a terminal you already run.

https://www.warp.dev/download

curl -fsSL https://app.warp.dev/download/agent-cli | bash

Invoke-RestMethod "https://app.warp.dev/download/agent-cli.ps1" | Invoke-Expression

git clone https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp.git

Commands and code are distilled from the project's own documentation — always check the official repo for the latest.

// When to use it

• Run a coding agent in the terminal you already use, without switching editors
• Keep several agent sessions multiplexed in one place and hand long-running work off to cloud agents
• Work on a remote machine with an agent without installing anything on that machine
• Route agent work across frontier and open-weight models, or against your own keys and router

// How Warp compares

Warp alongside other open-source autonomous coding agents tools AI/TLDR tracks, ranked by GitHub stars.