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Intelligent Terminal is an experimental terminal emulator developed and published by Microsoft Corporation, distributed as an open source project with an explicit invitation for community participation through the project page at https://aka.ms/intelligent-terminal. The software is a fork of Windows Terminal and extends that established foundation with native agent integration, positioning it within the terminal emulator and developer tooling category. Its defining characteristic is an integrated agent that operates in a dedicated pane alongside the user's shell. This agent is able to see the user's shell context, which allows it to catch errors as they happen and assist in fixing them without requiring copy-pasting between the terminal and external tools. Users can ask the agent to explain failures, generate commands, or work through multi-step tasks, and because the agent lives in its own pane, the shell itself stays unblocked while this assistance takes place. These capabilities make the software relevant to use cases such as debugging command-line errors, learning the meaning of unfamiliar failures, automating command generation, and delegating longer, multi-step command-line workflows while continuing to work interactively in the same window. As an experimental release, it is aimed at developers and terminal users who are interested in agent-assisted command-line workflows and who may also wish to contribute feedback or code to the project. The current version listed in the catalog is 0.2.2395.0, and the version numbering reflects the early, experimental stage of the project. The catalog records five versions of Intelligent Terminal in total, indicating an active release history with multiple iterations published over time. Together, the forked Windows Terminal heritage, the context-aware dedicated agent pane, and the open source development model define Intelligent Terminal as an experimental Microsoft project exploring how agent integration can change everyday terminal work.
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