Warp is now open-source

Can you confirm that Warp is NOT initiating any connection to any service whatsoever unless explicitly enabled in Settings?

Warp had an account requirement in the beginning which spoke volumes about the misalignment of values. Now the terminal is not called a terminal, it is "the agentic development environment" (whatever that means) which also lowkey implies that it might have some kind of online features. But at the same time I understand that it is now an absolute requirement to mention AI on any web page for any product.

Does it call home?

> Open-sourcing is fundamentally coming from our desire to build a successful business. We are competing with other highly funded, closed-source competitors, and we think opening and providing the resources for the community to improve Warp is a smart way for us to accelerate product development. Yes, we are a VC funded startup, but we do not have the resources to compete on price or massively subsidize usage – we need to build our business by offering the best possible product to the most excited community.

Appreciate the candid take. Warp is great.

I hope someone will create a lightweight version without AI and code editing stuff. The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff while having claude code, opencode, codex and plenty other options.

Sad that they didn't open source the commit history. I would have loved to branch off of like 5 years ago when Warp was just a terminal, rip out all the AI and cloud shit, and turn it into just a nice terminal with some neat features.

Interestingly i had been building a terminal in rust and libghostty(with Linux and windows supported too) with built-in agent that understands terminal, too.

And the motivation was warp is doing a little bit more than a terminal.

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Glad to see now warp is open-sourced

My main driver has been Ghostty but I've been looking at Warp for a while. Warp seems like a full on IDE (~ADE) though, as opposed to a minimalistic terminal. Can anyone add some thoughts? Are these 2 very different?

tangential: I've seen Mitchel tweet that people in SF have ran up to him showing him how they fully riced their Ghostty setup. How many people here have done this and how easy/manageable is it? e.g. just forking the repo and implementing whatever Warp feature I like?

Oh, not OS/2 Warp.

Any chance they could make it less than 850 MB?

+1 use warp every day. Needs some UX improvement around the agent stuff and file editor but I see it as alpha/beta software so I'm not too critical.

Not convinced making it open source will increase their development speed.

I really like Warp. It's a lot nicer to be able to visualize what I'm doing in the terminal. Some people don't like the AI features, but they only activate if you log in.

opens link...

... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name

... closes tab

Recently I've started to use https://superset.sh as alternative to Warp. After the volks @mastra mentioned it. Very cool open source project.

I'm actually pretty proud of the final setup I've created with it.

Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude with the ticket as instructions.

The cool thing with this setup is, I can have like 10x the same servers running on different ports/worktrees. Each time an agent is done, I switch to the workspace, look at the browser and can immediately test things.

It's like having 10 virtual desktops. Wonderful!

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> OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new, open-source Warp repository, and the new agentic management workflows are powered by GPT models.

Nice...

I never really understood why anyone would use this when you can just fire up claude code from your favorite terminal.

Can I use it now without logging in?

As someone who was interested in warp in the early days (new rust terminal!), but who would never use a closed source terminal, this feels like a pyrrhic victory, since I don’t care at all about the AI accoutrements.

Maybe someone will finally add tmux/zellij support…

I hope someone will make a version of Warp where I can bring in Openrouter key for free. Or any other provider, for that matter. I'd pay $5/10/month just to be able to use it.

I've been trying to figure out what the long term play is here - is it an angling for a frontier lab acquisition? Or does open-sourcing put Warp in the same sort of category as OpenCode - where charging for LLM tokens becomes the main commercial driver?

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937349 (or vice versa; this one was earlier but has fewer comments)

Open-sourcing the terminal so the agent business has somewhere to land is a pretty honest framing, at least.

Holy shit this made my day. Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place rather than copy pasting into an editor and doing so there. Now I’m more or less assured I can retain this convenience without being forced into more AI crap.

Great terminal, annoying that everytime it updates I have to go back to the settings to disable new AI features or layout changes.

Trying it on Ubuntu 26.04 Desktop Guest w/VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Host but getting a black window, nothing else: https://imgbox.com/WaOGe9gu

Was hoping this was about OS/2. Nope, all AI grifts.

now someone please remove the login module

Well, very nice, will need to give it a try afer I check the requirements. I almost went to Warp from DOS but Linux arrived first.

EDIT: well looks like this is not OS/2 Warp. I wish the title would have noted this is somekind of app instead of just saying "warp".

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