# wavetermdev/waveterm

An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows

Repository: https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/waveterm
Homepage: https://www.waveterm.dev
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: command-line, developer-tools, linux, macos, terminal, windows, productivity, terminal-emulators
Last push: 2026-08-11T18:53:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1548, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": 139, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 44}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 22112, forks 1108 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.382830+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: terminal-ui, gui, developer-tools, ssh, chatbot, llm-inference, file-system, editor, cli
- domain: developer-tools, large-language-models, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: terminal-emulator, ai-terminal, ssh-client, byok, workspace, remote-development, wsh, command-line, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- wavetermdev/waveterm (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.382830+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 2026-08-29T16:57:43.152156+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.382830+00:00, sha 24f72dcb380f)
  - homepage: https://www.waveterm.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:55.160843+00:00, sha fc059851c4c0)
  - site_page: https://docs.waveterm.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:55.170052+00:00, sha 27880582c911)
  - site_page: https://docs.waveterm.dev/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:55.172052+00:00, sha 1157283c6637)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.