# Terminal Use

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/terminal-use/  
**Website:** https://www.terminaluse.com  
**APIs profiled:** 28

Terminal Use is a deployment and orchestration platform for background AI agents — "Vercel for background agents." It gives agents that need long-lived task state, persistent files at /workspace, and production deployment primitives (versions, rollback, logs, environment secrets) a single runtime model and one deploy flow. Teams write agent code in Python with the AgentServer runtime, ship it with the tu CLI, then call deployed agents from their own app with the Python or TypeScript SDKs (including a Vercel AI SDK provider for streaming chat UIs). The platform is model- and framework- agnostic — run the Claude Agent SDK, Codex SDK, or your own framework inside sandboxed compute with forkable, shareable filesystems. The HTTP API exposes namespaces, projects, agents, branches, versions, tasks, events, messages, state, filesystems, schedules, secrets, API keys, and webhook keys. Terminal Use is a Y Combinator (W26) company founded by Vivek Raja, Filip Balucha, and Stavros Filosidis.

## Kin Score — 39.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 58.2 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 51.8 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (28)

- **Terminal Use Agent APIKeys API** — The Agent APIKeys API from Terminal Use — 4 operation(s) for agent apikeys.
- **Terminal Use Agent Task Tracker API** — The Agent Task Tracker API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for agent task tracker.
- **Terminal Use Agents API** — The Agents API from Terminal Use — 7 operation(s) for agents.
- **Terminal Use API Keys API** — The API Keys API from Terminal Use — 3 operation(s) for api keys.
- **Terminal Use Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
- **Terminal Use Branch Events API** — The Branch Events API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for branch events.
- **Terminal Use Branches API** — The Branches API from Terminal Use — 10 operation(s) for branches.
- **Terminal Use Builds API** — The Builds API from Terminal Use — 3 operation(s) for builds.
- **Terminal Use CLI Authentication API** — The CLI Authentication API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for cli authentication.
- **Terminal Use Environments API** — The Environments API from Terminal Use — 4 operation(s) for environments.
- **Terminal Use Events API** — The Events API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for events.
- **Terminal Use Filesystems API** — The Filesystems API from Terminal Use — 9 operation(s) for filesystems.
- **Terminal Use Groups API** — The Groups API from Terminal Use — 8 operation(s) for groups.
- **Terminal Use Logs API** — The Logs API from Terminal Use — 3 operation(s) for logs.
- **Terminal Use Messages v2 API** — The Messages v2 API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for messages v2.
- **Terminal Use Namespaces API** — The Namespaces API from Terminal Use — 5 operation(s) for namespaces.
- **Terminal Use OAuth API** — The OAuth API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Terminal Use Organizations API** — The Organizations API from Terminal Use — 7 operation(s) for organizations.
- **Terminal Use Projects API** — The Projects API from Terminal Use — 4 operation(s) for projects.
- **Terminal Use Raw Events API** — The Raw Events API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for raw events.
- **Terminal Use Registry API** — The Registry API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for registry.
- **Terminal Use Schedules API** — The Schedules API from Terminal Use — 5 operation(s) for schedules.
- **Terminal Use Search API** — The Search API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for search.
- **Terminal Use Secrets API** — The Secrets API from Terminal Use — 4 operation(s) for secrets.
- **Terminal Use States API** — The States API from Terminal Use — 2 operation(s) for states.
- **Terminal Use Tasks API** — The Tasks API from Terminal Use — 14 operation(s) for tasks.
- **Terminal Use Version Events API** — The Version Events API from Terminal Use — 1 operation(s) for version events.
- **Terminal Use Versions API** — The Versions API from Terminal Use — 6 operation(s) for versions.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Terminal Use MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Terminal Use Agentic Access** — 151 operations · 78 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Terminal Use Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Terminal Use Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Agents, AI Agents, Background Agents, Agent Infrastructure, Deployment, Orchestration, Sandboxed Compute, Filesystem, Developer Tools, SDK, CLI

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/terminal-use/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.