The terminal emulator with AI harness, nothing more
Open source. Fast. Terminal-first.
Built for SSH, tmux, and agent-native workflows.
If you're an old-school terminal user and only want enough AI harness when needed, nothing more or less, con is for you.
Think of it like a beloved old beast with modern Bluetooth done right, or a truck lover who still wants an electric future.
- a terminal emulator
- built-in AI harness aware of panes within a tab
- works well with
ssh,tmux, and agent CLIs running directly in the terminal
con is in active pre-release development.
Best-supported target today: macOS.
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Grab the latest binary from Releases.
If you want to build from source or hack on con, see HACKING.md.
DESIGN.mdvision and architectureHACKING.mdbuild and contributor quickstartdocs/screenshots.mdUI gallery
con stands on the work of several 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 AI agent framework behind Con's agent harness, along with the provider work we maintain in our own fork(before our upstream first work merged).
- 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.
If you build or use con, you are also benefiting from the care and engineering work of those communities.
con was initially inspired of warp.dev, but is doing less than warp, if you need more, you proababbly should go for warp instead.