I Built an LLM-Native Terminal Emulator for macOS (Rust, Swift, Metal)
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Every day I open my terminal, start Claude Code or Gemini CLI, and spend the first few minutes configuring the right context for the project. Setting up CLAUDE.md. Connecting MCP servers. Finding the right prompts. After doing this hundreds of times, I started asking a simple question: Why can't the terminal do this automatically? So I built one. Awal Terminal is a free, open-source macOS terminal emulator designed for developers who work with AI coding agents. The Problem With Using AI Agents in a Regular Terminal Traditional terminals treat AI output like any other text stream.