A terminal-first IDE for coding agents.

Zerminal puts Claude Code, Codex, Aider, and other CLI agents at the center of the workspace. The editor is still there, but the terminal drives.

~/projects/my-app — zerminal

Explorer

src

📄index.ts

📄utils.ts

AGENTS.md

CLAUDE.md

TerminalEditor

> claude

Claude Code initialized in ~/projects/my-app

Project context loaded: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md

You: Add authentication to the API routes

Claude: I'll add JWT-based authentication to your API routes. Let me analyze the existing structure...

Context

AGENTS.md

Preferred tools: TypeScript, Prisma
Test framework: Vitest

CLAUDE.md

Project: API backend
Auth: JWT tokens

Install

macOS

brew install --cask elleryfamilia/zerminal/zerminal

Linux

curl -fsSL https://github.com/elleryfamilia/zerminal/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Use the CLI agents you already trust. No editor account, no model lock-in.

Run Claude Code, Codex, and Aider in parallel when one thread is not enough.

Keep AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, notes, and project context visible beside the terminal.

Zerminal keeps Zed's excellent foundation and reshapes the workspace around terminal-native agent workflows.

Default terminal workspace

Clean split between terminal and editor

Agent pane docked on the right

Keep your agent conversation visible

Multiple agents side by side

Run different agents in parallel

Zerminal is opinionated software for one workflow: steering coding agents from a terminal-native workspace. It is a fork, not a platform.