Warp terminal goes open source

Warp said on April 28 that its Warp client is now open source on GitHub, opening the code behind its terminal-based development environment. (warp.dev) The company said community contributors will help build the client through an “agent-first workflow” managed by Oz, Warp’s cloud platform for orchestrating coding agents. OpenAI is listed as the founding sponsor of the new repository. (warp.dev) (github.com) Warp’s GitHub repository shows a split license: the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates are under MIT, while the rest of the codebase is under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The repo was public with more than 27,000 stars when GitHub’s page was crawled today. (github.com) Warp is pitching the software as an “agentic development environment,” which means a terminal that can run its own coding agent or connect to outside command-line agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI. The company says more than 700,000 developers use Warp. (github.com) (warp.dev) The open-source move reverses Warp’s earlier position. In a 2023 company post, Warp said staying closed source gave it more flexibility as it grew, while promising to open-source parts of its Rust-based interface later. (warp.dev) Warp says the timing reflects a change in how it thinks software gets built: agents handle more of the implementation work, while people focus on writing specs, reviewing behavior and deciding what should ship. The company said Oz will coordinate that process in the open. (warp.dev 1) (warp.dev 2) Oz itself was introduced in February as Warp’s cloud service for running and managing coding agents at scale, with audit trails, links for each agent run, and command-line and application programming interface controls. Warp said then that Oz was built to move agent work off a developer’s laptop. (warp.dev) The company is also framing the repository as an alternative to closed-source AI coding products. In its announcement, Warp said there is not yet a “full-featured open agentic development environment” on the market and argued that outside developers should help shape one. (warp.dev) The code is open, but Warp’s business is not disappearing into GitHub. Warp still sells a broader platform around terminal features, cloud agents and enterprise tooling, and its launch post ties the repository directly to Oz’s managed workflow rather than a fully self-contained local project. (warp.dev 1) (warp.dev 2) For Warp, the new public repo is both a source release and a live test of whether a terminal company can build software by having humans supervise agents in public. (warp.dev)