A terminal command centre for macOS. Organise your sessions on a Kanban board, integrate with AI assistants, and manage external tooling — all from one place.
Personal project, developed in spare time. Contributions and feedback welcome!
Terminal sessions live as cards on a Kanban board with customisable columns. Each card carries real context — name, description, tags, working directory, and init command — so you always know what's running, what's waiting, and what's done.
- Drag cards between stages as work progresses
- Pin terminals for instant tab access
- Persistent sessions via tmux — reconnects automatically on launch
- Per-terminal and global environment variables, with secrets stored in the macOS Keychain
- 8 colour themes — Dracula, Nord, Solarized, One Dark, Monokai, Gruvbox, and more
The Repositories sidebar surfaces your git repos and worktrees alongside their active terminals. Create and switch worktrees without leaving the app, and open a terminal directly into any branch.
TermQ exposes two integration points for AI assistants:
- MCP server (
termqmcp) — gives Claude Code and other LLM tools direct read/write access to the board, including persistent context and queued actions between sessions - CLI (
termqcli) — create, find, move, and update terminals from anywhere in the shell - Autorun — queue a command on a card; it runs automatically the next time that terminal opens
Harnesses are installable tool integrations. Browse a registry, install with one click, and launch managed services directly from the sidebar.
Each harness can provide:
- Artifacts — binaries, scripts, or config bundled with the harness
- Hooks — shell commands wired to lifecycle events
- MCP Servers — additional AI tool integrations exposed automatically to the board
- Profiles — pre-configured terminal launch configurations
YNH is the reference harness runtime — a tool for building and distributing harnesses that TermQ can discover, install, and manage.
- Download the latest
TermQ-{version}.zipfrom Releases - Unzip and move
TermQ.appto your Applications folder - Right-click → Open on first launch (required for unsigned apps)
git clone https://github.com/eyelock/termq.git
cd termq
make sign
open TermQ.appSee CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed build instructions.
- macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, project structure, building, testing, and the release process.
- Terminal emulation powered by SwiftTerm by Miguel de Icaza
- Session persistence powered by tmux
- Harness runtime by YNH
- Built with assistance from Claude Code
MIT License — See LICENSE for details.