TurtleTerm

They say the world was built on the back of a turtle. TurtleTerm carries the shell on its back.

TurtleTerm is the SourceOS policy-aware, agent-addressable terminal workbench for trusted command execution, terminal receipts, agent delegation, and reproducible operator workflows.

TurtleTerm presents its own product surface: TurtleTerm launchers, TurtleTerm profile, TurtleTerm agent gateway, TurtleTerm release artifacts, and TurtleTerm skill manifests. Third-party notices and required license attribution are preserved in the repository license files and release artifacts.

Install

Tapless Homebrew install from this repository:

brew install --HEAD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SourceOS-Linux/TurtleTerm/main/packaging/homebrew/Formula/turtle-term.rb

Preferred public Homebrew flow after the tap is published:

brew install SourceOS-Linux/tap/turtle-term

Current tap HEAD formula flow after the tap is published:

brew install --HEAD SourceOS-Linux/tap/turtle-term

Local checkout flow:

brew install --HEAD ./packaging/homebrew/Formula/turtle-term.rb

Direct release artifact installer after the first TurtleTerm release exists:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SourceOS-Linux/TurtleTerm/main/packaging/scripts/install-turtle-term.sh | bash

See docs/sourceos/INSTALL.md for full install, profile activation, and validation instructions.

Launch

turtleterm

Commands

turtle-term paths
turtle-term run -- echo hello
turtle-term office plan --title "Demo Report" --artifact-type document --format md
turtle-term /office plan --office-action convert --input ./demo.docx --to pdf
turtle-term office evidence inspect ./office-evidence.json
turtle-agentctl --stdio ping
turtle-tmux panes

turtle-term is the command wrapper. turtleterm is the graphical launcher. sourceos-term remains available for SourceOS contract compatibility.

The office / /office operator surface does not implement an office suite inside TurtleTerm. It produces SourceOS Office operator plans that point to sourceosctl office, records the receipt command to run through TurtleTerm, and summarizes OfficeArtifactEvidence runtime contract IDs when present.

Product surfaces

• TurtleTerm graphical launcher
• TurtleTerm mux launcher
• TurtleTerm command wrapper
• TurtleTerm local agent gateway
• TurtleTerm agent CLI
• TurtleTerm tmux bridge
• TurtleTerm Office operator flow planning
• TurtleTerm skill manifests
• TurtleTerm turtle icon
• TurtleTerm release artifacts, manifests, SBOMs, and attestations

License and notices

TurtleTerm is MIT licensed. Required third-party notices are preserved in LICENSE.md and release artifacts.