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@yongfook @bradgessler License checks are implemented on the client, and never touches your server. The check never disrupts any flows between your users and server. If it's not licensed, it displays a message that the server isn't licensed, but it still works.

@bradgessler @terminalwire I respect the hustle but there’s not much chance I would ever use something in my app that performs a remote license check. Especially in a payment flow.

Am I crazy to think that upgrade / downgrade / payment should all be exposed by API in your app, so AI agents can buy and self-upgrade? Is this already a thing?

@karpathy If you want to ship a CLI to your Rails app in under an hour and never have to update clients, check me out. terminalwire.com/docs/rails

CLIs are super exciting precisely because they are a "legacy" technology, which means AI agents can natively and easily use them, combine them, interact with them via the entire terminal toolkit. E.g ask your Claude/Codex agent to install this new Polymarket CLI and ask for any arbitrary dashboards or interfaces or logic. The agents will build it for you. Install the Github CLI too and you can ask them to navigate the repo, see issues, PRs, discussions, even the code itself. Example: Claude built this terminal dashboard in ~3 minutes, of the highest volume polymarkets and the 24hr change. Or you can make it a web app or whatever you want. Even more powerful when you use it as a module of bigger pipelines. If you have any kind of product or service think: can agents access and use them? - are your legacy docs (for humans) at least exportable in markdown? - have you written Skills for your product? - can your product/service be usable via CLI? Or MCP? - ... It's 2026. Build. For. Agents.

@karpathy @thekitze 👋 The nice thing about CLIs are they can be "heavy" and mostly run on the client/workstation, or they can be "light" and be streamed from the server like SSH or Terminalwire. They also generally have good error messages when the wrong stuff is entered into them.

I don't exactly see them as direct competitors. I have to think about the relationship more I don't think I have a clean way to think about it yet. It's a much larger space that covers various design decisions and constraints - where does compute happen? where does state live? how language / system specific is the functionality? etc.

Everybody, thank @kieranklaassen for Terminalwire no longer needing `sudo` to install! I now install to ~/.terminalwire instead of /opt/terminalwire, which dramatically reduces the friction of the `curl` installer. That makes it much easier for humans & AI to use me. 🦀😎🤖

Guess what @OpenGraphPlus uses for its `ogplus` CLI? TERMINALWIRE! It's used to create sites, manage caches, generate meta data tags, and other stuff that web developers find handy.

Watch a Terminalwire CLI get built for @CoraComputer in under two hours 💅💅

@kieranklaassen @aviflombaum @TrySpiral @danshipper The dream is a Terminalwire sever for all runtimes, frameworks, and programming languages. And of course only one client that’s auto-updated by Terminalwire 🙌

@aviflombaum @TrySpiral @danshipper @terminalwire yes i use it for another rails project to see how it performs :) but spiral is python and react

I needed a @TrySpiral cli, so I just created one. With my compound engineer plugin it only took 3 prompts. So its #agentnative approved @danshipper ! github.com/EveryInc/compo…

Ya’ll are about to see a CLI launched in record time. The crazier thing though will be watching how quickly @aviflombaum will crank through iterations of the CLI. PRs will come through to add CLI features and the installed software will require zero updates. 🚀🚀🚀

OMG I JUST THOUGHT OF THE BEST APP IDEA YOU ALL ARE GOING TO LOVE IT! DNSassy.com - a single place to manage your DNS for your domains no matter provider. 1 clean interface to add entries, edit, etc. And it will have a CLI via @terminalwire And of course, it's O'Sassy

Who wants a CLI for Fizzy? Tell me what commands you want in the replies & I'll whip up a @terminalwire demo over the next few days and show how easy it is to ship a CLI in Rails apps. Then I'll plug the CLI into an LLM and show why you should ship a CLI to integrate with AI

@Shpigford @Namecheap Name Cheaper

awful @namecheap support experience on a premium domain purchase. taking 100+ domains elsewhere. where should i transfer all of them to?

Somebody should build this in a Rails app with @terminalwire and @TonsOfFun111’s ActiveAgent or @paolino’s RubyLLM. CLI would stream from serve, be backed with those LLM libraries, and your app logic/billing would be in the middle.

I should talk more about @terminalwire now that Omarachy is a thing. 🤔 What if you could build a CLI for your Rails app that lives on your server and is part of your Rails monolith? When you deploy a feature, the changes are immediately streamed to your user.

One of the nice things about open-sourcing @terminalwire is I can write project proposals on Github when people ask me a question about a feature that isn't fully built-out yet. Then: 1. I will get paid to build it or 2. Somebody else builds it and it's contributed back 🧵👇

Terminalwire is open source! I finally got to a point with the stack where I could slow down and think through which license would be best and landed on AGPL. Link to the article and repo are in the thread🧵👇

Any SaaS company owners want this as part of their kit? @terminalwire can be setup to send your SaaS's web hook requests through a tunnel to a local dev's machine. e.g. imagine if @clickfunnels had a `funnels dev -p 3000` and webhooks are sent to a devs local web server.

Build a two-step developer onboarding experience! In this demo I show how SaaS, like @ModernTreasury, could use @terminalwire to streamline their developer onboarding, in this case 9 steps to 2. Source and link for the demo in 🧵👇

If you like code spelunking without much explanation, I've deployed the Terminalwire developer experience demo. This eliminates all the "to get your API key, click this, click that, blah blah blah" with two steps: 1. Install CLI 2. Get API Key Link to demo and source in 🧵👇

First public demo app for Terminalwire just dropped called DemoDNS! This is what it would look like if you ran a DNS registrar on Rails, like @dnsimple, and wanted to offer your users a command-line interface to manage domains. Github repo and public demo links in 🧵👇

@yukihiro_matz I’m writing a series of articles about Tebako if anybody wants to follow along. I built @terminalwire binaries in Ruby and packaged it with Tebako. So far so good! Next week’s article will be my opinion on using it in production. terminalwire.com/articles/self-…