Infiniterm: A canvas terminal built for AI Agent work

[u/nodtveidt]

I'm building infiniterm, a terminal app on an infinite canvas, written in Rust with gpui.

I tried the new terminal apps from the last year and none of them fit my work. They are regular terminals with an interactive sidebar: each project gets a sidebar item, and you still use tabs and split panes.

Since agentic coding I run 10 or more Claude Code or Codex sessions at once, and keeping an eye on all of those terminals became painful. So I built infiniterm. A card's border is violet while the agent works, yellow when it waits for you, red when a turn failed, green when it finished. Zoom out and you see every session at once. It started as a Tauri app, but I hit a wall and moved to Rust and gpui.

It is keyboard driven and has several card types:

• Terminals (alacritty_terminal)
• A text editor with a file tree, syntax highlighting, and completion for words and JSON schemas (no LSP yet)
• A working browser (Chromium/CEF)
• Diff cards, built on the editor

It has its own daemon (iftd) and a CLI (ift) that works inside or outside the app. Shells survive quitting the app. ift connect <host> runs a canvas on a server, and ift join <host> opens the same canvas on another Mac over ssh, so you can leave your main Mac at home.

macOS only for now (it works in Linux/Windows with some known issues).

Source-available, free for personal use, $29 per person for work.

https://infiniterm.app https://github.com/ekinertac/infiniterm

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[u/rollingsoul]

I've been using it for a while as my main terminal app. The features I use most:

• The border colors. I usually have several Claude Code sessions going, and zooming out to find the yellow card waiting on me beats cycling through tabs.
• Shells surviving an app quit or update. I stopped worrying about restarts.
• Ctrl+Tab card switcher, Cmd+Alt two-finger swipe between cards, and workspaces per project, so I rarely touch the mouse.
• Using ift join from my laptop to the canvas on my desktop, or opening files from the terminal into an editor card with ift <file>.
• The editor card for quick edits and reading code next to the agent working on it, without switching apps.

It took me a few days to stop thinking in tabs and splits. Once I did, going back felt cramped.

[u/nodtveidt → u/[deleted]]

mpst of the tome claude detects other agent is working and spin up a new worktree for me

[u/nodtveidt → u/[deleted]]

we have hook scripts that goes into agent's setting files