Show HN: aTerm – a terminal workspace built for AI coding workflows

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4 months ago

I’ve been doing more AI-assisted development lately using tools like Claude Code and Aider, and I kept running into the same friction: too many terminal tabs and split windows to manage at once — agent, shell, dev server, tests, git, etc.

So I built a small macOS app called aTerm — a terminal workspace designed around multi-pane, agent-driven coding workflows rather than single shells.

Core ideas:

- project-based terminal workspaces

- predefined layouts for common AI coding setups (AI + Shell, AI + Dev + Shell, AI + Git)

- terminals persist per project when switching

- built-in git panel for staging/committing/diffs

- split panes with drag resize

- per-pane font sizing and themes

- keyboard-first navigation (project switching, pane control)

- Stack is React + TypeScript + xterm.js on the frontend and Tauri (Rust + portable-pty) on the backend.

It’s early (v0.1.x) but already usable for my daily workflow. I’m mainly trying to see whether this workflow pattern is useful to other people doing agentic or multi-terminal development.

Repo + macOS build: https://github.com/saadnvd1/aTerm

Happy to get feedback or criticism.