Answers to common questions about Liu Terminal: what it is, which AI coding agents it works with, where it runs, what it costs, what it collects and how to install it.
Short answers about what Liu is, which agents it works with, where it runs and how to get it.
Liu is a native macOS terminal built around AI coding agents. It runs agent CLIs such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and OpenCode in tabs and split panes, shows what each agent is doing, keeps a browsable history of their past sessions and notifies you when one finishes. Drawn on the GPU with Metal.
Liu is a terminal built for vibe coding — the way of working where you direct one or more AI coding agents instead of typing every command yourself. It runs Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI and other agents side by side in split panes, keeps their past sessions so you can resume them, and notifies you when an agent finishes a task.
Any command-line agent runs in Liu as it does in any terminal. Beyond that, Liu reads the session stores of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Cline, Roo, Kilo, Kimi, Amp, Cursor Agent, Crush, Factory Droid, Antigravity, Grok and Command Code, so their past sessions can be browsed and resumed from one list.
Yes. Agent History in Liu — press Cmd+K and type "agent history" — lists the past sessions of every supported agent CLI in one place. Opening a session resumes it in the tool that wrote it, and a session can also be continued in a different agent.
Liu tracks the agent in every split pane. A tab that runs agents shows one logo per agent, takes its title from the agent's own chat and sweeps an activity bar while any of its panes is producing output. Resting the pointer on the tab lists every pane with its agent, its topic and a timer such as "working 1m 12s" or "idle 40s".
Yes. Press Cmd+Shift+M and speak; Liu types the transcript into the pane that had focus when you started. Whisper large-v3-turbo runs on the Mac itself and covers 100 languages, and a hosted speech API can be used instead.
Yes. In Liu an SSH session opens in the same tabs and panes as a local shell, with SFTP file transfer, a remote file browser and port forwarding. Saved hosts, keys and snippets are kept in a vault encrypted with AES-256-GCM.
Liu runs on macOS, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Linux builds are listed as coming soon and are not available for download yet.
Yes. Liu is free to download and use, and its source code is published under the Apache License 2.0.
Download the DMG for your Mac — Apple Silicon or Intel — from liu.software, open it and drag Liu into Applications. Packaged macOS releases are signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Liu can also be built from source with CMake.
No. Liu has no analytics and no telemetry. Agent History is read from the session files the agent CLIs already keep on your own disk, and none of it is uploaded.
Liu uses SIMD assembly on the hot paths — ARM64 NEON and x86-64 SSE2 — and renders with Metal on macOS.
Liu is a terminal emulator like them, and what it adds is organized around AI coding agents: per-pane agent status in the tab strip, a history of agent sessions that can be resumed or continued in another agent, notifications when an agent finishes, voice dictation, prompt translation, a file browser with a code editor and a Markdown reader, and a browser pane for previewing local sites.
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