# Liu — Terminal for Vibe Coding & AI Coding Agents > Liu is a native terminal for macOS built for vibe coding. It sits between you and your coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot and more — making ten parallel agent threads feel like one place. Metal GPU renderer. URL: https://liu.software/ Language: en Updated: 2026-10-17 ## One terminal for every AI agent. Liu sits between you and a variety of coding agents and makes ten parallel threads feel like one place. [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/calculusteam/liu) - [macOS Apple Silicon · DMG](https://liu.software/download/macos-arm64) - [macOS Intel · DMG](https://liu.software/download/macos-x86_64) - Linux ARM64 · tar.gz Coming Soon - Linux x86-64 · tar.gz Coming Soon - Windows x64 · exe Coming Soon ## Built for the way you actually code now. Agents up top, terminal underneath. ### Agent History Press Cmd+K to open the command palette, then type "agent history" to browse every installed AI CLI - Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, Qwen, Cline, Antigravity. Resume natively or scroll the transcript without launching the agent. ### Agent View Liu tracks the agent in every split pane, not just in every tab. A tab names itself after the agent's own chat, carries one logo per agent pane, and sweeps an activity bar while output is being produced. Rest the pointer on it and a panel lists each pane - agent, chat topic, and a pill reading `working 1m 12s` or `idle 40s`. When an agent finishes a stretch of work, a card drops in under that tab and the completion sound plays. ### Voice Prompt Press `⌘` `⇧` `M` and talk. Whisper large-v3-turbo runs on this Mac - no network, no account, nothing uploaded - and the words are typed into whichever pane has focus, so it works in Claude Code, in a plain shell, in a REPL. A live waveform shows what the microphone is actually hearing; when you stop, the trace freezes and a scan runs across it while the audio is transcribed. Pick the microphone, pick from all 100 languages Whisper knows, or point it at a hosted speech API instead. ### Sketch Press `⌘` `K` and pick *Sketch*: a drawing sheet opens over the terminal - pen, line, arrow, box and eraser, 14 colours and a stroke-width slider. `P` `L` `A` `R` `E` switch tools, `⌘` `Z` undoes. `Esc` or `Return` turns the drawing into a PNG and puts it on the clipboard, ready to paste into an agent that reads images - show a layout instead of describing it. `⌥` `Esc` closes without copying. ### AI Create Theme Describe a look, a local agent emits JSON, Liu applies it live. Saved into `~/.config/Liu/themes/`. The agent gets Liu's own theming guide, so it fills all 25 colour slots. Only agents found on your PATH are offered, and the result joins the 19 built-in themes in Settings → Appearance. ### Markdown Reader & Editor File browser opens READMEs, designs and agent notes — styled Markdown preview or raw edit in-window. Images, code and links render in read mode. Fenced code blocks carry a language label and a Copy button, and `![[note]]` embeds another note inline. ### Code Editor Press `⌘` `K` and pick *Code Editor*: the tab becomes a small IDE - explorer rail on the left, the file on the right, a file-type icon on every row and tab. One table-driven highlighter covers 50+ languages, and the script inside a Vue, Svelte or Astro component is lexed by the same code as a .js file. `⌘` `F` finds, `⌘` `⇧` `F` replaces, `⌘` `S` saves; the status bar reads Ln/Col, language, line endings and encoding. ### Graph View A knowledge graph of every Markdown file in a folder — nodes are files, edges are `[[wikilinks]]` and embeds. A force-directed layout settles them; hover a note to light up its neighbours, drag to pin, click to open. ### Notes Vault Every note lives in one Vault. `⌘` + `K` → Create Note lets a local agent draft Markdown straight into it, `[[wikilinks]]` connect them and feed the Graph, and Open Note / Search Notes jump anywhere. Terminal agents inherit `$LIU_VAULT` and write there too — `⌘` + `⇧` + `A` feeds any note back as an `@source`. One knowledge base, shared by you and your agents. ### Built-in notification system `liu-notify` speaks only when an agent truly needs you — and only then: a voice alert, a desktop banner, or a custom sound. A standalone background service that keeps running even when Liu is closed. ### Token Saving Hit `Ctrl` + `⌘` twice in your prompt — the local Metal-accelerated LLM (or chosen agent) translates non-English to English *before* the request leaves your machine. Context window shrinks, API bills drop dramatically. ### Built-in SSH Full SSH client behind one Session: live file upload and download, remote file browser, per-session menu, port forwarding (-L / -D), password / key / agent auth, known-hosts TOFU, Mosh reconnection, and recent-session history. ### Command Palette A single `⌘` + `K` fuzzy-searches every command, setting, host, snippet, theme and Agent History entry — no menu hunting, no muscle memory required. It changes shape too: `Open Note` is a note quick-switcher, `Search Notes` full-text-searches your Vault, and `Go to Heading` jumps through the open document's outline. ### Splits + Tabs Up to 32 tabs, each with up to 8 panes in any H/V split tree. Pane drag-and-drop. `⌘` + `⇧` + `I` broadcasts input to every active pane simultaneously. Drag a tab out to make a window, or onto another window's tab strip to join it. Quit and relaunch, and Liu reopens the tabs you had. ### File Browser Sidebar local + SFTP browser with one-click open. NSFilePromise drag-to-Finder transfers files in the background. 32 MiB LRU image cache. The browser opens at the focused pane's working directory. Drop a Finder file on a pane and its path is typed into the prompt for you — or uploaded over SFTP when that pane is an SSH session. ### Tab Sleep Tabs idle for N minutes auto-suspend — CPU and RAM drop to near zero. Click to instantly resume exactly where you left off, scrollback intact. Only a tab sitting at its prompt sleeps. A build, a dev server or an agent mid-turn keeps it awake — and the scrollback is saved to disk while it sleeps. ### Group Tabs Cluster related terminals into named, colour-coded groups right in the tab bar — Chrome-style. Create with `⌘` + `⇧` + `G`, drag-and-drop, or right-click. Collapse a group to hide its tabs and put them to sleep, freeing their PTY/SSH connections. Recolour from an 8-colour palette, rename inline, ungroup, or close a whole group at once. Named, coloured groups survive restarts — up to 8 at a time. ### Site Manager Register local project folders as sites, start and stop their dev servers from one panel, and watch live process logs — Local URL, HMR, and status at a glance. Open the browser, restart, or remove a site without leaving the terminal. ### Liu Browser Flip on the element picker in Liu's built-in browser and click anything on a live page — a button, a card, a misaligned row. Liu grabs its CSS selector, tag, text, size and full HTML and drops it inline into your agent's prompt as a context chip. No screenshots, no copy-paste: point at the exact node and Claude, Codex or any CLI sees precisely what you see. Ideal for "fix this", "restyle that" or "why is this off-center?".