Warp
GPU-accelerated AI terminal with cloud agent orchestration
Warp is profiled here as a Coding Assistant tool for engineering teams. Read about features, pricing, and how it compares to related options in the tools directory.
Description
Short Intro: Warp is an AI-native terminal built in Rust by Zach Lloyd, former engineering lead for Google Docs, who founded the company in June 2020. The San Francisco company raised $73 million across three rounds with backing from Sequoia Capital, Figma CEO Dylan Field, Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, and Sam Altman. Warp evolved from a modernized terminal emulator into a coding agent platform through Warp 2.0, Warp Code, and Agents 3.0, with its agent ranking first on Terminal-bench and third on SWE-bench Verified.
Key Capabilities:
Block-based terminal interface organizing commands and outputs into discrete interactive units with IDE-style selection, cursor positioning, and autocomplete
Natural language command generation triggered by the # prefix for translating plain English into shell commands
Agents 3.0 with multi-step autonomous task execution and configurable autonomy levels per workflow
Oz cloud orchestration layer for running parallel coding agents on cloud infrastructure
Agent Profiles for defining models, permissions, and tasks per agent with explicit boundary enforcement
Warp Drive team collaboration layer storing shared workflows, scripts, and command templates across the organization
WARP.md project files compatible with Claude.md and Cursor rules for consistent agent instructions across tools
40-repository codebase context indexing covering up to 100,000 files per repository
BYOK support for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys alongside Warp's own credit system
GPU-accelerated Rust rendering engine with native ARM64 builds across macOS, Linux, and Windows
SOC 2 compliance with zero data retention across all contracted LLM providers
AGPL-3.0 and MIT dual-licensed open source at github.com/warpdotdev/warp