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A terminal for people who program with AI agents. Built in Rust, GPU-rendered, for Windows 11 and Linux.
Tabs and splits, a file explorer, a code viewer with a minimap, a Git panel and a workspace that starts Claude Code and Codex in your project folder. Text that ForgeTerm puts in the terminal never gets an Enter by itself: you decide when something runs.
Three files, built from the same code. Check the SHA-256 after downloading: if it matches the hash below, you have exactly the file I built.
Windows 11 · x64
Installs per user to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ForgeTerm, no administrator rights needed. Adds a Start menu shortcut and an entry under Settings › Apps.
ForgeTerm-0.1.1-setup-x64.exe · .sha256 file
Windows 11 · x64
Unzip and start forgeterm.exe, nothing to install. Includes the README, the font licence and THIRD-PARTY.txt with the licence of every compiled-in crate.
ForgeTerm-0.1.1-windows-x64.zip · .sha256 file
Linux Mint 22 · Ubuntu 24.04 · amd64
Installs /usr/bin/forgeterm, a menu entry with an icon and the documentation. apt fetches missing libraries itself (X11/Wayland, xkbcommon, EGL).
forgeterm_0.1.1-1_amd64.deb · .sha256 file
ForgeTerm-0.1.1-setup-x64.exe.
Check the hash in PowerShell:
PS> Get-FileHash .\ForgeTerm-0.1.1-setup-x64.exe -Algorithm SHA256
Uninstall through Settings › Apps › ForgeTerm. Only the installed files are removed; your settings and session in %APPDATA%\ForgeTerm stay.
Rather not install anything? Unzip the zip and start forgeterm.exe.
Check the hash and install, in the folder with the download:
$ sha256sum -c forgeterm_0.1.1-1_amd64.deb.sha256 $ sudo apt install ./forgeterm_0.1.1-1_amd64.deb
Uninstall:
$ sudo apt remove forgeterm
Your settings live in ~/.config/forgeterm/ and stay when you uninstall. Git and Vulkan are recommended, not required.
Released on 11 November 2026, on top of everything version 0.1.0 could already do.
PowerShell, bash and cmd mark every prompt with a bar in the margin. Ctrl+Shift+Up and Down jump between commands. Copy the output of the last command, or put it in your agent's prompt without Enter.
A tab gets a badge when a program is waiting for you, is done, has failed or rings the bell. When the window is in the background, the taskbar asks for attention.
Ctrl+click on a reference in the output, such as src/main.rs:42 or a line from a Python traceback, opens the file in the code viewer at that line. ForgeTerm only reads the file and runs nothing.
Ctrl+Shift+E puts the focus in the explorer. Browse with the arrow keys, PgUp/PgDn, Home/End and Enter. The tree refreshes by itself when a folder changes, and Go to Folder jumps to a path you type or paste.
A built-in template that asks the agent to check its work thoroughly and then continue.
ConPTY on Windows and a real PTY on Linux, with the VT emulation of alacritty_terminal. Truecolor, 256 colours, alt screen for vim, CJK characters. JetBrains Mono, font size with Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-.
Split side by side or stacked, drag the divider and maximise one pane with Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Each tab picks its own shell: PowerShell 7, Windows PowerShell, cmd, Git Bash or WSL.
Ctrl+Shift+P lists every action with fuzzy search, most recently used first. The same actions are in the menu bar, and every shortcut can be changed in settings.toml.
Finds Claude Code and Codex, shows their version and starts them in the project root as a tab or split. Shows the project context: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, rules, skills, commands, subagents and MCP.
Templates with {{variables}}. ForgeTerm fills in what it actually knows (project, folder, selected text, file) and places the prompt without an Enter. Floating, or as a panel beside the terminal, which keeps working. Your own templates are plain .md files.
View files next to your terminal, with syntax highlighting (Rust, Python, JavaScript, Go, C#, SQL and more), line numbers, minimap, search and copy. Reloads by itself when the file changes.
Branch, ahead/behind and changes in the status bar. Diff, stage and unstage, commit, switch branches, and commits per day over thirty days. Push and pull are deliberately left to the terminal.
CPU and memory of the system and of each terminal, covering the shell's whole process tree, with three minutes of history. What ForgeTerm does not measure, such as the GPU, is shown as not measured.
A file tree that follows your shell's folder. Double-click puts the path, quoted correctly for that shell, in the terminal. Your tabs, splits and folders come back at the next start.
Real screenshots of version 0.1.0 on Windows 11, not edited.
A terminal that runs AI agents has to be predictable. These rules are in the code, not in a setting.
Every action has a shortcut, a menu item and a place in the Command Palette. Set your own keys under [keys] in settings.toml.
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Command Palette |
| Ctrl+Shift+T | New tab |
| Alt+Shift+= / Alt+Shift+- | Split side by side / stacked |
| Ctrl+Shift+Enter | Maximise pane and back |
| Ctrl+Shift+↑ / ↓ | Previous / next command |
| Ctrl+Shift+A | AI workspace |
| Ctrl+Shift+I | Prompt Studio |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Explorer |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Code viewer |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Git panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+M | Monitor |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Search output and scrollback |
| Ctrl+, | Open settings |
ForgeTerm is written in Rust and consists of nine crates. The terminal engine has no GUI code, so it can be tested on its own. No unsafe code, apart from two documented places. Source code on GitHub
Nothing. ForgeTerm is free and open source, under the MIT or the Apache-2.0 license, at your option. The source code is on GitHub: github.com/erikvandeblaak/ForgeTerm.
The installer is not digitally signed. Windows SmartScreen then says "Unknown publisher". Check the SHA-256 first, then choose More info › Run anyway.
Yes. Claude Code starts, renders and responds to the arrow keys and Esc. Shift+Enter gives a new line in Claude Code, because ForgeTerm supports the Kitty keyboard protocol.
No. There are builds for Windows 11 (x64) and for Linux (amd64, as a .deb for Mint 22 and Ubuntu 24.04).
In %APPDATA%\ForgeTerm\settings.toml on Windows and in ~/.config/forgeterm/settings.toml on Linux. Ctrl+, opens the file; ForgeTerm applies what you save within two seconds.
Compute the file's SHA-256, with Get-FileHash in PowerShell or sha256sum on Linux, and compare it with the hash on this page or in the .sha256 file.
ForgeTerm is made by Erik van de Blaak.
Found a bug or have a question about ForgeTerm? Report it on GitHub or email me.