What it is
Warp is a terminal application, built in Rust, that adds an AI coding agent and natural-language command handling to the command line. Typing # followed by a description gets a suggested command; right-clicking an error asks the agent to explain it. A separate component, the Warp Agent CLI, runs the same agent inside any existing terminal via a curl install, without requiring the Warp app itself.
How it fits together
Beyond single-session help, Warp Factories — a separate hosted product with its own Pay-as-you-go, Build, Business and Enterprise tiers — let a team or an individual developer define automation as a factory.yaml file so that fleets of agents pick up work triggered by GitHub issues, Slack messages, Jira tickets or a schedule, and open pull requests. The open-source part of Warp is the terminal client on GitHub, under a dual licence: the UI framework is MIT, the rest AGPLv3. Warp supports Claude, GPT and Gemini models, and its April 2026 newsroom post says model support was extended to open-weight options including Kimi, MiniMax and Qwen.
Dependencies and deployment
Terminal input and output is sent to whichever AI provider is configured; Enterprise customers can run Warp against their own VPC and control data retention. Installers exist for macOS 10.14+, Windows 10/11 (x64/ARM64) and Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage, Arch).
Limits
Its terms of service reserve rights to use account data for training its own models, and heavier agent use is metered by credits rather than unlimited on any paid tier.