Warp, the AI-powered terminal that's been locked away for five years, is finally open source. The code is on GitHub under AGPL v3, with two UI framework crates — warpui_core and warpui — under MIT. Written in Rust, Warp has nearly a million active developers.
OpenAI is the "founding sponsor" of the repository. Community contributions are orchestrated by Warp's own cloud agent platform, Oz, which runs on GPT models from OpenAI — the company just released GPT-5.5, which offers the same latency at half the cost. The idea: agents handle coding, planning, and testing, while humans propose ideas, set direction, and approve. When a contributor submits an issue or feature request, Warp marks it as ready, Oz automatically assigns an agent to write specs and code, then a human reviews and merges. Contributors can also use other coding agents like Claude Code — though recent bugs in Claude Code caused quality degradation that Anthropic later fixed — as well as Codex, Gemini CLI, and more.
Warp's founder explained the timing in a blog post: the current bottleneck isn't writing code anymore — it's product design and behavior validation, things that still need humans. Warp discussed open-sourcing every year, but this year agent maturity finally tipped the scales.
Alongside the open-source release, Warp shipped three product updates: support for open-source models like Kimi, MiniMax, and Qwen, plus an "auto (open)" routing option that picks the best model automatically; a new mode that switches between a pure terminal, a lightweight view with diff and file tree, and a full ADE (AI development environment); and a settings file for syncing configuration across devices.