Show HN: I built a transparent terminal wrapper for unobtrusive AI
Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay. Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input. I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback.
- ▪Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay.
- ▪Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input.
- ▪I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback.
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Terminai Terminai is a transparent terminal wrapper that puts a real AI CLI in an on-demand overlay. Use your shell normally, then press Ctrl+Space to open Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or a custom agent with live terminal context and approval-gated access to suggested shell input. Website: terminai.app Terminai is in alpha. I use it as my daily driver, but you should always keep an ordinary shell profile available as a fallback. What Terminai does Terminai starts one shell (or a command you provide) inside a PTY and renders it with VT100 emulation while preserving the host terminal's native scrollback and copy behavior. The wrapped terminal remains the primary interface; Terminai stays out of the way until the overlay is activated.
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