Shadow Terminal
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Launch Status: Production Ready

The Connected AI Workspace.
Local First. Zero Limits.

A single, continuous surface where specifications, editing, visual canvas, planning, and memory run directly inside your machine. Fully engineered and battle-tested for production.

Explore Approach
shadow_workspace_trace.mp41080P • local_inference
[ Vault Spec ][ Planner Actions ][ Co-Editor Diffs ]
Zero Telemetry•100% Offline Capable•Your Hardware, Your Workspace•Specification Vault Note System•Visual UI Canvas Designer•Truthful Trace Logs•Staged Reviewable Mutations•No Token Meters•Zero Telemetry•100% Offline Capable•Your Hardware, Your Workspace•Specification Vault Note System•Visual UI Canvas Designer•Truthful Trace Logs•Staged Reviewable Mutations•No Token Meters•
The Disconnect

Disconnected tooling.
Scarcity meters.
Telemetry spying.

Most developers are copy-pasting code between browser tabs, text editors, note buffers, and visual planning boards. This breaks focus, fragments your history, and puts your proprietary specs on remote servers.

TELEMETRY SHIELD: ACTIVE
COORDS: X(240), Y(240)
Context loss001

Fragmented Workspaces

Swapping screens to describe context over and over wastes cognitive load. Context should remain right where the work lives.

Artificial scarcity002

Metered Ambition

Cloud bills and token limits cap your capacity, cutting off major refactorings or agent loops midway through.

Zero Ownership003

Data Leakage

Sensitive client directories, local files, and personal specs are transmitted to third-party databases for continuous training.

Latency Roundtrips004

Opaque Automation

Silent agents make hidden edits deep inside your folders. Edits should be reviewable, transparent, and user-staged.

Shadow Terminal Core

Everything Connected.

Your planning steps, markdown note vaults, visual UI designer, and local code editor feed the same working context on-device. No context-loss, no silos.

YOUR HARDWARESPEC VAULTnotes & briefsPLANNERtracked actionsCO-EDITORstaged diffsVISUAL DESIGNERUI canvas specsLOCAL AGENT TRACE & MEMORYREMOTE THIRD-PARTY CLOUDBLOCKED BY DEFAULT
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Remove The Meter

Refactor massive repositories, spin up long-running planner loops, and write specs all day. No API fees, no usage limitations.

Air-Gapped Privacy

Your code, prompts, notes, and local files never leave your environment unless explicitly allowed by custom integrations.

Instant Execution

Single-digit millisecond latency. Inference queries execute on local hardware, bypassing distant cloud hops.

Core Components

Unified Workspace Surfaces

Each surface is built for a distinct task instead of forcing writing, visual UI design, and checklists through a single chat tab.

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Co-Editor

Selection-aware workspace editing, staged code modifications, diff generation, and code symbols mapping for structured reasoning.

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Vault Note System

Markdown-native editor designed for specs, requirements documentation, research, notes, and local files integration.

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Visual Designer

Structured canvas view for UI hierarchies, visual mockups, asset placement, inspectable layouts, and reviewed mutations.

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Interactive Planner

Transform ambiguous goals into structured, executable steps. Tracks agent progress, status codes, and terminal integrations.

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Durable Memory

Context anchored in confirmed execution, past edits, and developer preferences, bypassing unstable conversation records.

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Runtime Trace

Complete routing details, model requests, files read/written, and step outcomes exposed in detail for direct user audit.

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Workspace Scaling

Local core with cloud scale.

Unlike static systems, Shadow Terminal scales seamlessly. Run core loops locally on your machine at zero cost. Offload massive refactoring passes to cloud networks only under your command.

Step 01Unified Core UI

Desktop Shell System

The local desktop workspace coordinates Vault specs, Planner actions, visual canvas designs, and local git repositories on your filesystem.

Step 02Custom Llama.cpp Engine

Direct Local Inference

A custom inference engine built directly on top of llama.cpp. By bypassing upper-level wrappers like Ollama, we eliminate middleware overhead to run local parameters with maximum speed and zero fees.

Step 03Controlled Cloud Scaling

Heavy-lifting Offload

For complex logic structural design or multi-file code builds, route specific prompts to advanced cloud inference servers, returning staged reviews.

Command line interface

Engineered for control.

Use the `shadow` CLI to run agent commands directly from your local terminal workspace.

shadow://workspace • offline
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Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

01What is Shadow Terminal?
Shadow Terminal is a fully functional, local-first workspace for software engineers. It coordinates Specifications, visual UI layouts, task checklists, local model parameters, and files editing in one continuous UI.
02How does it compare to cloud-based systems?
Unlike cloud systems that read files as temporary prompt buffers and upload specs to third-party databases, Shadow Terminal operates local-first on your machine. This gives you single-digit latency, cost-free queries, and air-gapped security, with optional cloud offloads.
03Is the product ready to launch?
Yes! While other competitors are still in draft specification stages, Shadow Terminal is fully realized and battle-tested. The underlying auth services, admin control panel, and integration APIs are complete and production-ready.
04Which local models are supported?
Shadow Terminal runs a custom, lightweight inference engine built directly on llama.cpp, bypassing upper-level frameworks like Ollama to run Llama-3, Qwen-2.5-Coder, or custom fine-tuned parameters with bare-metal speed.
05How is user data protected?
All prompts, specs, and filesystem indexes are stored locally in an encrypted database on your machine. Access credentials, user entitlement gates, and admin tokens utilize secure JWT flows stored in localStorage.
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