The terminal emulator with AI harness, nothing more
Open source. GPU-accelerated. Terminal-first.
Built for SSH, tmux, and agent-native workflows.
con is for people who want a serious terminal first and AI help only when it earns its place.
It keeps the PTY real, the shell visible, and the agent accountable.
If you're an old-school terminal user and only want enough AI harness when needed, nothing more or less, con is for you.
- native macOS terminal windows, tabs, and split panes
- a built-in AI harness that can read context, ask before acting, and work directly in the terminal you can already see
- terminal-native workflows for
ssh,tmux, and coding-agent CLIs
con is in active beta development.
Best-supported target today: macOS.
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Homebrew
brew install --cask nowledge-co/tap/con-betaShell
curl -fsSL https://con-releases.nowledge.co/install.sh | shOr download the DMG directly from Releases.
To build from source, see HACKING.md.
DESIGN.mdvision and architectureHACKING.mdbuild and contributor quickstartdocs/screenshots.mdUI galleryCHANGELOG.mdrelease notes and product changes
con depends on upstream projects we rely on directly and respect deeply:
- Ghostty for the terminal runtime and rendering foundation that powers our embedded terminal surfaces.
- GPUI from the Zed team for the native GPU UI framework we build the shell on.
- gpui-component from the Longbridge team for the component library that accelerates much of the UI layer.
- Rig for the Rust agent framework behind
con's AI harness, including provider work we currently pin through a maintained fork revision while upstream changes settle. - Phosphor Icons for the icon system used across the app.
- Flexoki for the default visual theme direction.
- Iosevka and Ioskeley Mono for the mono type foundation used in terminal chrome and code-heavy UI.
con was initially inspired by warp.dev, but is doing less than warp, if you need more, you should go for warp instead.