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termic

Open-source Conductor.build alternative. Runs the real claude/gemini/codex CLIs in real terminals, no SDK middleman

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What it is

Open-source Conductor.build alternative. Runs the real claude/gemini/codex CLIs in real terminals, no SDK middleman

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Unfortunately many subscriptions require you use their harness. In that case, I highly recommend using Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic/). It's an incredibly useful GUI…

0xbadcafebee used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-07-26 09:36:49 UTC to 2026-10-15 01:00:28 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 202026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 312026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 12

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What Hacker News says

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0xbadcafebee·Oct 15, 2026Recommendation phrase
Unfortunately many subscriptions require you use their harness. In that case, I highly recommend using Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic/). It's an incredibly useful GUI that lets you use the provider's harness, but adds extra productivity features. You can use OpenCode, Pi, Claude, Codex, whatever you want. The TUI runs in a window, but you can also pull up terminals, open tabs, keep projects, workspaces, show file diffs, give feedback on lines of code, review PRs, and way, way more. The number of features is impressive. The devs are very quickly adding features, yet the app remains stable. And they fix bugs super fast! They fixed like three bugs and implemented two feature requests of mine within a week of asking. Best of all the whole thing is FOSS and they're not trying to make money off you. Absolutely awesome maintainers.
In OpenCode 2.0
Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep (supporting so many platforms will add a ton of extra complexity), and on OpenCode SDK only. As a simpler desktop-only multi-platform option, I can highly recommend Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic). It just runs existing TUI coding agents (so Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc) and manages them in sandboxed git worktrees. You get a real PTY to manage agent in, lets you see when one is working or has paused, plus a terminal, "changed git files", even in-line-code comments you can feed back to the agent. It's a good design, works well, the main dev is working very quickly on improvements, and they're responsive to issues and PRs.
In OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

Show HN: Termic – desktop app for running CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex)

So, https://termic.dev open source desktop app for managing claude code / codex / agt / etc coding sessions. main checkout or worktrees. Here's the story: a couple of months ago Anthropic announced pricing changes over the programatic use of Claude code (Agent SDK + including -p), i suspected tools like Conductor will stop working. Started building a clone myself, which uses the CLI binaries in PTY terminals as first class citizens, not custom agent sdk. This is the most bulletproof way of always being up to date with latest improvements of the cli agents + and never have this pricing issue again for 3rd party tools, and you get the flexibility of using any CLI agent. That's how https://termic.dev was launched. Also has some pain points with conductor which i adressed in termic: launch in main checkout (doesnt force you into a worktree)
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, sandboxing of agents (filesystem + network), multi-repo projects and agents, and bring-your-own agent CLI. Stack is simple, and i;'ve been obsessing over performance and UX: Rust/Tauri2, react, xterm with WebGL renderer, plius a ton of performance tweaks. What was really difficult: auto resume sessions for all coding agents + reliable work done detection (the hardest one). The project has been dteadily gworing, i have 4-5 contributors and we dicuss design, provide feedback, etc. BTW open source AGPL. No plans of monetizing, just giving back to the community as i used open source myself the throught my entire career. Would love your feedback too. https://termic.dev https://github.com/simion/termic
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