What Terminal Use does
Terminal Use is a deployment and orchestration platform for background AI agents, purpose-built for agents that work with filesystems. Described as a Vercel for background agents, it aims to make deploying and running long-lived, filesystem-based agents as straightforward as deploying a web app.
Key capabilities
Developers point their agent at Terminal Use via a CLI or SDK, and the platform packages and runs it in an isolated sandbox with per-customer compute isolation, maintaining filesystem state across agent turns. When a session ends, the filesystem is snapshotted and becomes the starting point for the next invocation. One filesystem can be shared across multiple agents, and filesystems can be forked to test agents in parallel on the same input. A messaging SDK persists and streams messages back to user interfaces, and there is a Vercel AI SDK integration. The platform is CLI-first.
Who it's for
Terminal Use serves developers and teams building background, filesystem-based agents who need managed sandboxing, state persistence and deployment. It is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.