Agents

Agents overview

Warp's coding agent runs commands in a real terminal, carries your context across every surface, and works interactively or in the background.

The Warp Agent is Warp’s built-in coding agent. It works where your code already runs: it executes commands in a real terminal, reads the output, and keeps going until the task is done. You stay in the loop, approving actions and reviewing diffs before anything lands.

Where to use the Warp Agent

You reach the same agent three ways. Which one you pick depends on where you’re working, not on what the agent can do.

In the Warp app - The full experience, with code review, agent management, and the terminal beside your conversation.
In any terminal, with the Warp Agent CLI - Run the warp command to start a conversation in any terminal emulator, over SSH, or on a machine where the Warp app isn’t installed.
In the cloud, as a cloud agent - Run the agent in the background from a trigger, a schedule, or an integration, without keeping a session open. Cloud agents run on Oz, Warp’s platform for environments, triggers, orchestration, and observability.

What makes the Warp Agent different

It works in a real terminal - The agent runs shell commands, reads live output, and drives interactive programs like REPLs, database shells, and full-screen apps. See Full terminal use.
Your context follows it everywhere - Rules, Skills, MCP servers, and Codebase Context apply the same way in the app, the CLI, and the cloud.
Interactive or delegated, and you can switch mid-task - Steer a conversation while it runs, or hand it off to a cloud agent and pick it back up locally when it’s done.
You approve before anything lands - The agent asks before it runs commands, edits files, or calls MCP servers. Set how much it does on its own with Agent Profiles and permissions, and review generated changes in interactive code review.
Many agents at once - Run several conversations in parallel and track them in the Agent Management Panel, or use orchestration to have a parent agent spawn and coordinate children.

Try this prompt — open in Warp

Detect my current operating system. Based on that, navigate to the appropriate Warp themes directory (e.g. ~/.warp/ on macOS).

Then, clone the official Warp themes repository using SSH (git@github.com:warpdotdev/themes.git) into that directory, following the structure and instructions provided in the repo's README. If SSH does not work, try HTTPS (https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes.git) or via the GitHub CLI (gh repo clone warpdotdev/themes).

Third-party CLI agents

Separately from the Warp Agent, Warp gives third-party CLI coding agents first-class support. Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and others inside Warp and get rich input, agent notifications, inline code review, and remote session control.

→ Learn about third-party CLI agents

Where to go next

Interacting with agents - Conversations, context, code review, and voice in the Warp app.
Agent capabilities - Planning, skills, rules, MCP servers, task lists, and model choice.
Warp Agent CLI quickstart - Install the CLI and run your first conversation.
Cloud agents quickstart - Run your first agent in the cloud, or put one on a schedule. For a comparison of triggers across schedules, Slack, Linear, GitHub Actions, the CLI, and the API, see Run unattended agents.
Agent FAQs - Models, privacy, credits, and limits.

Open source

Warp’s client is open source under AGPL v3, so the editor and terminal that host your agents are fully auditable. See Contributing to Warp.