kooky is a minimal modern terminal built for AI coding. It features sidebar workspaces, horizontal / vertical split panes, one-click agent launch, per-agent activity readout, and live workspace state with one-click Node and branch switching.
Key Features
- Vertical tabs, split panes & windows: Sidebar workspaces with three-state collapse; drag the sidebar's right edge to widen it. Each pane owns its own tab strip and active tab; split it right or down. Drag a tab to reorder it, move it across panes, or drop it into a different window.
- One-click AI agent sessions: Pick an agent from the + menu; the agent boots before your first prompt prints. All agents resume their conversation across kooky restarts.
- Menu bar agent glance: An optional Kooky item in the macOS menu bar shows the live agent count only while agents are present. Open it to see every active agent tab with its project path, jump straight to one, open Kooky or Settings, change Keep Awake, or quit.
- Live workspace state: Pane status bar shows the git repo + branch + diff, Python venv, Node version, active proxy, and SSH remote info. Click the Node or branch pill to switch versions / branches without typing.
- Prompt composer: A chat-style box rises from the bottom of the pane for writing a long, multi-line prompt without a stray Return firing it off mid-thought.
- Sidebar file tree: Toggle at the bottom of the sidebar swaps the workspace list for a file tree of the active workspace's folder.
- GPU rendering: Powered by libghostty for smooth GPU-accelerated rendering.
Privacy
Open-source, MIT-licensed. No accounts, no telemetry; app state stays local.
