15 · The Workbench

Terminal Agent

Shell-native coding agent

A coding agent that lives in the terminal: reads your repo, runs commands, edits files, and loops without a GUI. Often the most direct path to repo-wide or command-heavy work.

Concrete example

From your project root, you describe a task and watch it run git, tests, and file edits in the scrollback.

Why it matters

The default surface for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Aider, and similar tools.