wavetermdev/waveterm

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22112 stars · 1108 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Wave Terminal is an open-source, cross-platform terminal emulator with integrated AI assistance, durable SSH sessions, file previews, a built-in editor, and a web browser. It supports any AI model via bring-your-own API keys (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama) and stores all data locally with no account required.

Use cases

• ai-integrated terminal with context-aware assistant
• ssh sessions that survive network interruptions
• edit and preview remote files without leaving the terminal
• split-screen terminal workspace with dashboards and widgets
• terminal that works with local llm models via ollama
• manage multiple remote servers from one terminal
• inline preview of markdown, images, csvs, and pdfs

When to choose

• you want AI help that reads your terminal output and workspace context
• you work heavily over SSH and need resilient, reconnecting sessions
• you prefer a graphical, multi-block terminal with editors and browsers built in
• you want BYOK AI with local data storage and no accounts

When to avoid

• you need a lightweight, minimal terminal with low resource usage
• you rely on a terminal that only runs in a plain TTY or over serial connections
• you prefer a strictly keyboard-only, scriptable terminal like tmux/alacritty workflows
• you need native ARM builds without translation-layer warnings on older releases

Facets

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terminal-ui gui developer-tools ssh chatbot llm-inference file-system editor cli developer-tools large-language-models self-hosted windows cross-platform terminal-emulator ai-terminal ssh-client byok workspace remote-development wsh command-line macos linux desktop

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