May 2026 — Present · Active
Hone Terminal — AI-Native macOS Terminal
Personal product
Summary
Native macOS terminal emulator (Swift 6.2, SwiftPM, macOS 26+) with a custom PTY + VT100 parser and Metal-based GPU rendering, an integrated AI coding-agent surface (Cursor cloud agent + a local Node sidecar over NDJSON), and an embedded browser module. A separate codebase from Hone Intelligence — no shared FFI core or clipboard functionality.
Production-grade terminal core with vim/tmux/htop/less TUI compatibility and a built-in surface for running and monitoring coding-agent jobs.
Who it helps
- Engineers who want an AI coding agent embedded directly in their terminal workflow
- Users who want a fast, native terminal with modern GPU rendering on macOS
Features & functionality
- Custom PTY + VT100 parser; Metal-based GlyphAtlas rendering
- TUI compatibility: vim, tmux, htop, less parity
- Agent surface: run/monitor coding-agent jobs (Cursor cloud + local sidecar over NDJSON)
- Built-in git diff viewer and embedded browser module
- 1,166 tests across 52 suites
Stack
SwiftMetalSwiftPMmacOS 26
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