Show HN: I built a transparent terminal wrapper for unobtrusive AI
Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay. Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input. I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback.
- ▪Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay.
- ▪Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input.
- ▪I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/emosenkis/terminai |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:05:31 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T15:08:09.108Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T15:08:09.108Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | AxfqpqWjwGxi |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay. Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input. Website: terminai.app Terminai is in alpha. I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback. What Terminai does Terminai starts one shell (or a command you provide) inside a PTY and renders it with VT100 emulation while preserving the host terminal's native scrollback and copy behavior. The wrapped terminal remains the primary interface; Terminai stays out of the way until the overlay is activated.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.