# chaterm/Chaterm

Open source AI terminal for cloud and infrastructure management, enabling you to deploy, troubleshoot, and automate services using natural language and intelligent agents.

Repository: https://github.com/chaterm/Chaterm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chaterm
Homepage: https://chaterm.ai
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: cursor, cyberark, terminal, windsurf, aiagent, security, ssh, sre, bastion, pam, vibe-coding, vibecoding, codex-cli, putty, devops
Last push: 2026-08-26T09:29:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 82, longevity 36
- inputs: {"age_days": 506, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 41, "gap_med": 3.5, "n_releases_24m": 67}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3029, forks 290 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:38.872715+00:00)

## What it is
Chaterm is an open-source AI-native terminal application for cloud and infrastructure management, letting engineers deploy, troubleshoot, and automate services via natural language and autonomous agents. It includes smart command completion, voice input, SSH/bastion support, zero-trust authentication, and MCP-based knowledge integration.

## Use cases
- manage cloud servers with natural language commands
- ai terminal for ssh and bastion hosts
- automate devops tasks with an ai agent
- troubleshoot production issues across multiple hosts
- replace putty with an ai-powered terminal
- voice-controlled terminal for sre work
- unified ssh credential and authorization management

## When to choose
- you want natural-language or voice-driven infrastructure operations instead of memorizing commands
- you need an AI agent that plans and executes multi-host tasks with audit trails and rollback
- you want enterprise features like zero-trust auth, SSO, and bastion/PAM-style asset management in a terminal
- you want MCP integration to connect internal knowledge bases and tools

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight plain SSH client without AI features
- you require a permissively licensed dependency - the license is non-standard (NOASSERTION)
- you prefer fully local, offline tooling since it relies on AI model providers and cloud sync
- you need a scriptable CLI-only tool rather than a GUI desktop/mobile application

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, ssh, terminal-ui, speech-recognition, chatbot, security, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, security
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: ai-terminal, sre-copilot, bastion, pam, zero-trust, mcp, natural-language-ops, devops-automation, devops, command-line, ai-agents, automation, macos, linux, ios, android, electron, typescript

## Member repositories
- chaterm/Chaterm (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.872715+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:29:50.612772+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/chaterm/Chaterm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.872715+00:00, sha ddc44bfd3b52)
  - homepage: https://chaterm.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T09:45:06.461367+00:00, sha 0c306753bf63)
  - site_page: https://chaterm.ai/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:45:06.463716+00:00, sha 35dc6a4e525e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.