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Developers Lack a Lightweight Way to Summon AI Inside Any Existing Terminal

Developers using CLI coding agents face an awkward choice: copy-pasting context between a separate chat window and the terminal is tedious, while running a full AI agent process sacrifices the speed of a plain shell. Existing options like iTerm2's built-in AI and Warp require locking into a specific terminal emulator or subscription rather than working with tools developers already use.

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