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Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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daveidol wrote: post #3

So this is a competitor to something like OpenCode or Pi? I suspect for most developers, they are using Claude Code or Codex CLI mainly just so they don't have to pay-per-token and can use the subscription products - which I assume can't be done with Warp Agent?

Warp engineer here - yes, you can use OpenCode or Pi as comparison points; our CLI has BYOK, Supergrok subscription support, or our own inference to connect to frontier / open weight.

The main reason you might try it is the shell access. We made CLI commands runnable in an agent session in the foreground, similar to our terminal agent. It means you can `cd` into different directories during the session, or run interactive commands like vim or REPLs in the session. One reason is convenience (it's nicer to cd around projects and keep the conversation going) and another is visibility (you can run a REPL in the foreground and tag in an agent to help and control that REPL). We're curious how others like working this way. It's pretty convenient.

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Jonovono wrote: post #19

The other day in warp I literally couldn't run `ls` because it kept interpreting it as a AI command. I still love warp, but some of the stuff is crazy.

Warp team member here. If you have natural language detection on, you can turn this off in Settings > Agents > Warp Agent > Input by disabling "Autodetect agent prompts in terminal input." Still, I wouldn't expect `ls` to be classified as an AI command... I've seen this when auto-detection is disabled and you're in an agent conversation unexpectedly. Maybe that's the case?

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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dmix wrote: post #47

I don't currently plan to use this stuff (mostly because I generally use Claude via IDE sidebars) but I still love Warp and their TOML/YAML based config which preloads my 10 tabs + tab groups on init, covering the 3 projects I work on. So I don't have to go into each dir and remember start commands every time I reboot.

Warp eng here. Glad you like it :)

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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HDBaseT wrote: post #57
qudat wrote: post #43

Interesting idea! I like the idea of more deeply integrating code agent with the terminal (e.g. shell, ptys, etc). It's spawning PTYs but does it support SSH'ing into a remote session and running commands from a remote shell? That's something I built into zmx in order to scratch that "debugging in a remote VM" itch. https://zmx.sh

I find it a bit strange that none of the mainstream harnesses have dedicated support for using an agent on another machine/VM on. I understand there is security and permissions limitations, but if I have 30 different VMs, it becomes unmanagable pretty quickly.

just... ssh into them and then run the agent?

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by jhogervorst »

hbn wrote: post #16
lexicality wrote: post #5

I used to really like Warp, back when it was just a terminal. Then as they went more and more in on AI the actual terminal features became more and more buggy and I ended up having to go back to WezTerm. Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones?

Yeah I became a fan of Warp when they offered a terminal that treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts. But I understand that's not a viable business model. I'm back on iTerm2 now cause Warp isn't approved for use at my job (and never would be with all their AI pushing), and I've managed to pound iTerm 2 into something usable enough but I wish every termi…

I feel the same. I also really liked the text input. The suggestions and autocomplete where also easy to use. And the block-based approach, with easy copying and sharing (through a URL), were super useful at times.

And for the AI part, the AI command generation (from plain text) was great. Also the follow-up command suggestions were handy sometimes.

Too bad Warp entered enshittification (already some time ago). Any (open source) alternatives for the good parts?

Re: The Warp Agent CLI

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Post by bholmesdev »

jhogervorst wrote: post #65
hbn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I became a fan of Warp when they offered a terminal that treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts. But I understand that's not a viable business model. I'm back on iTerm2 now cause Warp isn't approved for use at my job (and never would be with all their AI pushing), and I've managed to pound iTerm 2 into something usable enough but I wish every termi…

I feel the same. I also really liked the text input. The suggestions and autocomplete where also easy to use. And the block-based approach, with easy copying and sharing (through a URL), were super useful at times. And for the AI part, the AI command generation (from plain text) was great. Also the follow-up command suggestions were handy sometimes. Too bad Warp entered enshittification (already some time ago). Any (…

Warp engineer here - Warp is open source as well if there's anything we can do to improve the default experience. Otherwise, it's available to fork and customize: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp
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