Helium Terminal, a macOS terminal for coding agents built on libghostty by developer yowmamasita, launches at 15 MB and about 250 ms versus iTerm2 3.7's 176 MB and about 570 ms, per a benchmark script…
A developer published a guide on previewing Markdown files written by coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, recommending the terminal renderer Glow (brew install glow) and macOS's open command …
Developer cjodo released claude-colorizer, a dependency-free Go tool that renders color literals from Claude Code conversations as live statusline swatches and changes terminal tab and background colo…
A developer released FainLane, a 2MB native macOS app that lets users paste screenshots into remote CLI coding agents with Ctrl+V by detecting the focused window's remote host and uploading the image …
ITerm2 released a Claude Code integration that connects Anthropic's Claude Code CLI to the terminal emulator, displaying each session's state as working, waiting, or idle in the Session Status tool. T…
Claude Code's built-in task-completion notification only fires when the user appears away from the terminal and is supported by default only in Ghostty, Kitty, and iTerm2, according to the tool's docu…
ITerm2 3.7.0, released for macOS 13+ on September 8, 2026, introduces a new iOS companion app called iTerm2 Buddy that pairs via QR code and connects over an encrypted Noise channel, enabling AI chat …
OpenAI's new 'Computer History' feature for the ChatGPT macOS app creates a searchable, plaintext database of user actions, including clicks and keystrokes, to give its agent context. The feature is o…
Warp, the AI terminal, has open-sourced its client under AGPL-3.0 and removed its login requirement, but alternatives like TermAI, Wave Terminal, and Ghostty remain relevant for specific needs. The mo…
Warp launched a standalone Agent CLI that runs in any terminal and features a pseudoterminal multiplexer for full terminal control, enabling interactive workflows like debugging and REPL sessions. The…
Warp released Agent CLI, a standalone command-line product that brings its coding agent to any terminal, including Ghostty, iTerm2, VS Code, macOS Terminal, and Windows Terminal. The CLI carries over …
A developer has released Terminai, an open-source tool that integrates any CLI coding agent into any terminal as a transparent overlay, summoned via a shortcut. The tool, built on mprocs and forked fr…
A developer created a custom status line for Claude Code that displays context usage, rate limit bars with reset times, and clickable links to repositories, branches, and tickets. The script uses jq t…
A developer measured Claude Code's prompt-cache costs across three launch paths and found that 85% of cache_creation tokens are fixed overhead from Claude Code itself, not user-controllable. The VSCod…
A developer built shiibar-cc, a macOS menu bar app that monitors Claude Code sessions in iTerm2 and alerts users when input is needed. The app uses Claude Code's hooks to report session events locally…
A solo developer shipping 7 Mac apps uses VS Code with rust-analyzer, a three-tier AI stack of local Ollama autocomplete, Gemini for quick lookups, and Claude for complex Rust bugs, plus iTerm2 and a …
This article provides a cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts for iTerm2, clarifying that capital letters in shortcuts do not imply the Shift key unless explicitly stated. It distinguishes between shortcut…