Never touches your config
It works out state by sniffing: reading output and read-only file watching. It never writes to ~/.claude or ~/.codex, installs no hooks, runs no background services. Not a byte of your agent config gets touched.
MIT Local-first No tracking
Sparks everywhere, clear at a glance.
A modern terminal manager built for vibe coding. Local-first, CJK-native. Let the agents run — who's burning, who's burned out, who's pinging you — all in plain sight. No intrusion, no login, no cloud.
macOS · Windows · always free and open source
What's different
It doesn't run your agents for you. It just keeps an eye on them.
Keeps a bunch of agents in check
Agents get messy once you've got a few. It floats the stuck ones and the ones waiting on you to the top, so you're not clicking through each one to see who needs you.
A terminal stays a terminal
It does the terminal basics well. No feature bloat, no ambition to become an agent workbench.
CJK that just works
Wide characters, IME input, copying text with emoji in it — the things English terminals keep getting wrong. Handled here.
Everything stays on your machine
No login, no data collection, offline by default. It only goes online when you check for updates — and even then, it only reads.
MIT, open source
All the code is public. Read it, change it, do whatever you want with it.
What it does
Everything a terminal should do — plus the agent layer.
All the usual terminal features, plus state-awareness and orchestration built for a screen full of AI agents.
Agents
Sees what an agent's doing
Working, waiting, stalled, or done — figured out without touching your config.
Stall detection + urgency sort
Screen full of agents? The stuck ones and the ones waiting on you go to the top.
Live usage
Context left, 5h/7d quota, burn rate, cache, cost — all on one bar.
Usage stats
Token and cost numbers for Claude / Codex. Computed offline, exportable.
Terminal
Splits + worktrees
Mount a git worktree, one terminal tree per task.
Canvas board
Lay tasks out as cards, drag-select, send one command to several terminals.
Floating windows
Pop any task into its own window and keep watching.
GPU rendering
WebGL-accelerated — and CJK still won't drop glyphs or stutter.
Workflow
Command palette
Custom keybindings and actions — drive the whole thing from the keyboard.
Prompt presets
Handy presets for claude / codex / shell, a keystroke away.
Configurable status bar
Drag the widgets around; each agent type gets its own layout.
Desktop notifications
24 built-in sounds + quiet hours, only when an agent's state changes.
Hot-swap themes
10 built-in themes, switch anytime, macOS and Windows.
How it works
How does it know what an agent's doing without touching your config?
Three layers of sniffing, plus read-only file watching. No hooks, no login, nothing written.
OSC 133 / 633 sequences
Command boundary markers from shell integration. The most reliable layer: it knows exactly when a command starts, ends, or sits waiting for input.
Reading agent output
Matches the approval prompts of 11 common agents to tell when one's waiting on you.
That spinner in the title bar
If the braille spinner in the window title is moving, the agent's working.
The one rule: hands off your stuff
Never writes ~/.claude or ~/.codex, installs no hooks, runs no background services. Every state is watched, never injected.
Five states, clear at a glance.
Running Steady blue dot with a glow. The agent's working.
Waiting Amber dot, breathing — it's waiting on you. Worth a look.
Stalled Red-orange ring. Quiet for over 5 minutes, probably stuck.
Idle Still grey dot. Nothing going on.
Done Outlined ring, struck through. This one's actually finished.
Straight talk
Not one of the major English AI terminals takes CJK seriously.
Almost every major AI-terminal repo has CJK bugs sitting open, buried under English users' urgent ones. Nobody's really done this part. VibeTerm treats it as actual work.
Tool Known CJK issue Status
Claude Code Japanese IME lag + duplicate candidate window #1547 ▲ 241 Open Claude Code Enter fires mid-IME-composition #8405 ▲ 95 Closed, not fixed Claude Code Streaming UTF-8 boundary corrupts CJK #45508 Open Claude Code CJK table misalignment #13438 Open Claude Code Chinese line-wrap truncation regression #14812 Open Claude Code Korean + box-drawing truncation #14597 Open Warp No Simplified-Chinese UI #9357 Open Warp Garbled Chinese filenames in sidebar #7436 Open cmux Forced font injection — CJK users can't override #4519 Open cmux Korean font force-injected #1693 Open Ghostty macOS Chinese punctuation positioning bug #12173 Half-fixed xterm.js wcwidth historical bug chain #1059 Half-fixed Microsoft Terminal CJK ambiguous width #370 Open Microsoft Terminal Background activity notification — 5-yr spec, unimplemented #7955 Open On VibeTerm's side
- IME composition held the whole way (isComposing / keyCode 229). No misfires, no lag.
- Wide and ambiguous widths measured right, so tables stay lined up.
- Chinese line-wrap doesn't truncate; streaming never splits a glyph.
- Copy is guarded by Intl.Segmenter, so it won't tear surrogate pairs or break ZWJ emoji.
- CJK doesn't drop or shift under GPU rendering.
- Native notifications when a background agent does something.
Data is current as of publication. Spot something off? PRs welcome.
Themes
Switch the theme, the whole site follows.
The product's 10 built-in terminal themes are right here on this site. Click one and everything follows, from the nav to the terminal window.
Click to try
Credits
Standing on these shoulders.
VibeTerm uses and borrows from these open-source projects.
Rust
Frontend
- solid-dnd
- html-to-image
- Tauri plugins clipboard / dialog / notification
Borrowed from
- ccusage Usage aggregation, pricing, 5h blocks
- WezTerm PTY & terminal craft
- Tabby Terminal UX
- LiteLLM Model pricing reference
- Prowl Agent status inspiration
- CodexBar Status bar inspiration
- ccstatusline Status line inspiration
- panzoom Canvas pan/zoom
Fonts & assets
- JetBrains Mono OFL-1.1
- Color themes Nord · Tokyo Night · Catppuccin · Solarized · Gruvbox · One Dark · GitHub
- Pixabay Notification sounds
Special thanks to ryoppippi's ccusage (MIT). The usage stats, model pricing, and 5-hour blocks all drew from it; pricing data comes from LiteLLM and Anthropic's official numbers.
Give it a go?
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macOS 11+ and Windows — same download page.
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