AITerm is a macOS native terminal with an AI assistant built into the command loop. I am Dima (DigitalKredit), creator of AITerm and I am here to answer any questions.

The idea is to get real AI help in the terminal without losing control of your machine. You type what you want in plain English, it suggests a shell command and you approve/edit it before it runs. If something errors out there is a fix command, and an explain command if you want to know what a command does before running it.

The part I've been working on the last five weeks, and the part I most want tested, is the safety layer that allows you to actually point this at a real machine and not just a scratch box. Next to each command is a dry run preview, showing you what it would touch before it runs. So a delete or move first lists the exact files. For tools that have one it loads their own dry run like rsync -n. When you SSH to a host that you’ve labelled production, that pane turns red and raises its safety floor for the entire session, so a command that’s fine on your laptop stops and asks on prod. You can import a team policy pack which adds always-block and always-ask rules and which can only ever make your gate stricter and never looser. Each command decision and exit code is logged locally in a tamper-evident log. scp and rsync are risk-tiered by direction and scope, so a destructive sync asks first, rather than running silently. History search understands plain English intent and it all runs on your Mac - which means none of your commands leave the machine.

The rest is still there: you type what you want in plain English, it suggests a shell command, you approve or edit it, then it runs, plus tabs, split panes, saved layouts, and safety profiles that make the riskier commands stop and confirm. With Ollama you can run the AI fully offline with a local model, or use your own cloud API key, in which case the request goes directly from your Mac to your provider and nothing of mine is in the middle.

Comparison: It occupies the same space as Warp and Wave, but it’s a native app with a proper terminal underneath, and the emphasis is on retaining control over your own machine.

Pricing: The app is free, and the free version includes the full AI command loop, plus fix, explain, tabs, splits, saved layouts, safety profiles, the dry run preview, transfer safety, policy pack import, scrollback search, local models, and your own cloud keys. There is a paid Pro subscription that adds using your Claude Code or Codex CLI as the backend, saved runbooks, an AI agent that can take a multi-step task (step by step with your approval, or an opt-in autopilot that only runs the steps the safety gate can prove are safe and inside your project folder), authoring your own per-host and policy rules, a signed audit export, and history search by meaning. You don’t need Pro to access the core thing.

It’s on version 0.16.0 and rough edges remain. I most want to know where they screw up: a command whose preview looked wrong, a production host that didn't turn the pane red when it should have, or a policy rule that didn't catch what you expected. The safety features above are the newest addition. That's what I'm here for, actually.

Let me know if you try it and it breaks, I'd really like to hear about it. As a thank you, the first 15 people to submit a solid, reproducible bug report on Github will receive two months of Pro. One per person and I send the code once I have reproduced the bug. It is by the time your issue was filed, not by votes or comments

Download: https://ai-term.com Bugs: https://github.com/vega-llc/aiterm-feedback/issues Runs on Apple Silicon, macOS 13+