Warp is an agentic development environment that started as a modern terminal and today brings three surfaces under one brand: Warp Terminal, Warp Agent CLI and Warp Factories, aimed at orchestrating tasks in the cloud.
What it’s for
- Working with coding agents inside the terminal itself, with command blocks and editing
- Running a terminal agent in any emulator, without depending on the graphical app
- Orchestrating development tasks in the cloud, with a control plane for larger flows
- Bringing third-party CLI agents into the same environment, without switching tools
How it works
- The terminal offers block-based editing, searchable history and an agent built into the flow
- The Agent CLI can run in compatible terminals, including outside the app
- The environment accepts both its own agent and third-party harnesses, with model choice
- Factories act as a control plane for cloud tasks, in early access
Where it runs
- Terminal application for macOS, Linux and Windows
- CLI runnable in any compatible terminal
- Cloud orchestration services (Warp Factories)
Availability and licensing
- The client is open source: UI components under MIT and the rest under AGPL v3
- The hosted platform and cloud services remain proprietary
- The product is multi-model and also accepts third-party CLI agents
How it differs
- It is not only the historical terminal: the entry covers the current agentic development product
- It combines terminal, CLI and cloud orchestration instead of being just a command-line agent
- The client code can be audited, even though the hosted services are not open
Things to note
- The agent runs real commands; reviewing approvals and permissions is part of the flow
- Some cloud capabilities are in early access and may change
- Features may differ between the app, the CLI and the cloud services