Why Zerminal exists.
I've been experimenting with terminal-first development environments for a while.
Before Zerminal, I built Brosh, an Electron app around the same idea. I liked using it, but the weight and a few UI details kept bothering me. Zed had the speed, polish, and native feel I wanted, so I started bringing the parts I loved about Brosh into a Zed fork.
Along the way, I replaced Zed's built-in AI agent approach with one that detects coding agents and runs them in their native terminal UI. Claude Code, Codex, Aider, and tools like them stay themselves; Zerminal gives them the workspace around the terminal.
Zerminal is the result: a fast, pleasant workspace where the terminal is the center, with an editor, context pane, file browser, and git UI close by when you need them.
I use it as a simple terminal, a coding-agent workspace, and sometimes something closer to a full IDE.