Unterm
✦ Ours FreeThe terminal AI agents can drive
Turns the terminal into a surface AI can safely operate — spawn panes, run commands, read the screen, record sessions. Exposes 67 methods over MCP so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more can take the wheel. MIT-licensed, cross-platform.
Why we picked it
Most "AI terminals" cram an AI inside the terminal; Unterm does the opposite — it makes the terminal itself a surface any external agent can grip. Over MCP it exposes 65+ methods, from spawning panes and running commands to reading the screen, recording, and multi-instance orchestration — with the human always holding final control.
It's written in Rust, MIT-licensed, runs on Windows / macOS / Linux, and ships a 22-command CLI. If you like letting AI work in your terminal without handing over the keys, it's a genuinely new way to work.