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Built-in terminal

Context Code embeds a real terminal (with a native pseudo-terminal, not an imitation): what runs there is your usual shell, inside the app and next to the agent chat.

  • Show/hide the terminal is available as a command in the quick search, in addition to the panel button.
  • You can split the view into several panes and keep, say, a server running in one and one-off commands in another.
  • The project’s run and build buttons dump their output here, in plain sight.
The terminal supports split panes: server on one side, commands on the other.

The agent runs its commands under the rules of the chat’s approval mode: in “Ask for approval” every command reaches you as a card before it runs; in “Read only” it runs nothing. Every command the agent executes is logged in the conversation along with its output.