Terax Ai

Terax is a lightweight desktop app that combines a terminal, a code editor, a file explorer, a live web preview and an AI workflow in one small binary of about 7 MB. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, starts in roughly 300 milliseconds and can be used as a plain terminal with the AI side ignored entirely. The terminal uses a WebGL xterm.js renderer with multiple tabs and project wide search. The editor offers context aware AI autocomplete and a real Vim mode. Git support covers hunk level staging, commits and a commit graph. The AI agents and sub agents browse files, run commands and propose changes, and every edit appears as a reviewable diff before it reaches disk. Per project memory lives in a TERAX.md file, and snippets and skills act as reusable workflows. Voice input is supported, and a web preview tab auto detects dev servers such as Vite, Next and Astro. Terax is a bring your own key product. It works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Cerebras, xAI and any OpenAI compatible provider, or runs fully offline through LM Studio. The vendor states that it has no account, no backend and no telemetry. Terax is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license, with no paid tier. It is mostly built and maintained by one developer, and it is not a full IDE with a debugger.