Warp

Warp is an agentic development environment that grew out of the terminal. Built from scratch in Rust for speed, it began as a modern, GPU-accelerated terminal and has been rebuilt around AI agents, on the premise that a large share of real engineering work, from DevOps and deployment to debugging and data operations, happens in a shell rather than an editor and deserves first-class agent support there. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and as of 2026 its client is open source under a mix of MIT and AGPL licensing.

The terminal's defining idea is the block. Every command produces a self-contained block holding the command, its output, exit code, and duration, which you can select, filter, bookmark, and share rather than scrolling through a wall of text. On top of this sits a rich, IDE-like input with completions, syntax highlighting, and next-command prediction.

Warp's AI comes in layers. Active AI offers always-on hints and turns plain-language requests into real commands, and explains cryptic errors from your shell history. Agent Mode is an interactive coding agent that runs multi-step plans in the shell, finding relevant files through codebase indexing, editing them, running commands, reading the output, and correcting itself, with a planning mode to align on the approach first and multi-threading to run several agents at once. Cloud Agents, part of Warp's Oz orchestrator, run autonomously in the cloud, triggered by webhooks, CI events, schedules, or chat messages, to do things like draft a fix from an error alert or run weekly dependency updates.

A shared layer called Warp Drive lets teams store and reuse workflows, prompts, rules, and MCP configuration centrally, so every engineer and agent works from the same context and conventions. Warp supports the Model Context Protocol for connecting databases, ticketing systems, and internal APIs, and it deliberately avoids lock-in by running external CLI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI inside the same environment.

For teams, Warp adds explicit approval of commands, per-directory permission scoping, single sign-on, role-based access, and zero data retention. Its bet is that the terminal, not the editor, is the natural home for much agentic engineering work.