The terminal

Flywrite includes a real terminal — the same shell you'd get in your system's Terminal app, right below your writing. It's how you run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, or any other CLI agent.

Opening it

Press ⌃` to show or hide the terminal panel — or click the terminal button at the right end of the bottom bar. ⌘J jumps into the panel, and ⌘⇧J jumps back to the editor. Opening a panel with no terminals starts one automatically using your default launcher. Each project keeps its own terminals. (Every shortcut here is a default — customize any of them in Settings → Keyboard.)

Terminal tabs

Run more than one thing at once with tabs — click + and pick any of your launchers for the new tab (your default is listed first), and switch with ⌃Tab. Tabs name themselves after what's running (like "Claude Code"), or double-click a title to rename it. A spinner on a tab means an agent is busy working there. Open more tabs than fit and the strip scrolls — a shadow at either edge means more tabs are tucked away there, and the active tab always scrolls into view.

Scrolling back

Every terminal keeps thousands of lines of history — scroll up anytime to reread earlier output, even while an agent like Claude Code is working. Dragging the panel's edge to make it taller reveals more of that history, with the prompt staying pinned at the bottom.

Launchers

Launchers are one-keystroke ways to open a new terminal with something already running. Flywrite ships with four — Terminal (a plain shell), Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor Agent — on ⌃1–⌃4 by default. Add your own or edit them in Settings → Terminal; each agent's shortcut is also on its page in Settings → Agents.

Size it how you like

Drag the panel's top edge to any height — a little taller, or all the way to the top of the window. Faster still: click the up chevron in the terminal bar to maximize the panel in one click. Your file tabs stay visible, so you can jump back to a document anytime. While maximized, the chevron becomes a minus — click it to drop the terminal to half height, or drag the top edge down to peek at the document underneath.

Put it where you like

The terminal can dock to the bottom, left, or right of the editor — change it in Settings → Appearance → Layout. More in Appearance & themes.