terminal/
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Summary
The terminal/ group gives agents persistent, owner-scoped terminal sessions: shell and REPL state — cwd, exported variables, activated environments, running interactive children — survives across tool calls. Three packages cover the family: terminal/ provides the owner-scoped session service behind ctx.terminals (sessions get opaque ids, and every operation stays fenced to the owning agent); terminal-bash/ starts an interactive bash or pwsh shell under the shared sandbox policy; and tool-terminal/ exposes six model-facing tools with bounded results. A terminal complements the one-shot bash and filesystem tools: use it when work needs interactive stdin or cross-call state. Sessions are process-local and do not survive a harness restart.
Table of Contents
Packages
The family is one session service, one shell backend, and one set of model-facing tools. Each child README owns the full contract; the subsystem reference owns the shared vocabulary and the generated service surface.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
terminal/ | Session service: owner-scoped sessions with opaque ids, exact-owner fencing, and awaited cleanup | ctx.terminals |
terminal-bash/ | Shell backend: interactive bash or pwsh under the shared sandbox policy, with readiness detection and bounded output | registers a backend on ctx.terminals |
tool-terminal/ | Six model-facing tools with owner isolation and optional background sends | registers on ctx.tools |
Related documentation
Start with the subsystem reference for the shared types and the service surface, then the Agent Note for the design rationale and deferred boundaries.
- Terminal subsystem reference — ids, backend and session contracts, send readiness, bounded reads, and the generated
ctx.terminalsAPI. - Persistent PTY Agent Note — the design decision, alternatives, and deferred work.
- Capability seams — the Service Definition / Service Provider / Consumer split this family follows.
Dev Note
Working context for maintainers — click to expand
None.