11 · The Command Line

Terminal

Where you type commands (the shell)

The text window where you instruct the computer by typing instead of clicking; the “shell” is the program reading what you type. When a coding agent runs, this is where it lives.

Concrete example

The scrolling text you watch an agent produce is its terminal — each line a command and its result.

Why it matters

The cockpit of real computing, and the surface every coding agent operates on.