Terax is a lightweight terminal-first AI-native development workspace.

It combines a native terminal, code editor, file explorer, Git integration, web preview, and an agentic AI side panel in a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri, Rust, and React. AI features can use cloud providers with your own API keys or local models through tools such as Ollama and LM Studio.

This is free and open source software.

• GPU-accelerated, block-based terminal with multiple tabs and horizontal or vertical split panels.
• Native PTY backend supporting shells including Bash, Zsh, Fish and PowerShell.
• CodeMirror-based editor with syntax support for popular programming languages.
• Inline AI autocomplete and AI-generated edit diffs which can be accepted or rejected hunk by hunk.
• Agentic AI workflows with planning, sub-agents, project memory and approval-gated shell access.
• Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Mistral and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Works with local models through Ollama, LM Studio and MLX.
• Source control panel with staging, commits, pushing, history search and a Git graph.
• File explorer with fuzzy search, keyboard navigation, live updates and inline rename.
• Automatically detects local development servers and opens them in an integrated web preview.
• Custom themes, background images, Vim mode and configurable editor themes.
• No account required and no telemetry.

Website: github.com/crynta/terax-ai
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Developer: Crynta
License: Apache License 2.0

Terax is written in TypeScript and Rust. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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