Run commands in the terminal
Terminal is an integrated shell inside Glean Tau. It runs in your chat's working folder, so you and the agent work in the same place, and you can check its work or run your own commands without switching to another application.
How it surfaces
Terminal is a contextual panel in the side panel, beside a chat. It appears when your current destination is a chat and you're signed in, not on destinations such as Automations or Skills.
To open it, select New tab in the side panel, then select Terminal.
How to use it
- Run a command. Type into the terminal as you would in any shell. It starts in the chat's working folder.
- Open the terminal. Press Cmd+J (Ctrl+J on Windows) from a chat.
- Work in tabs. Press Cmd+T (Ctrl+T on Windows) to open a new terminal tab and Cmd+W (Ctrl+W) to close the active one. Both shortcuts apply while the Terminal panel has focus. The tab context menu also offers Restart terminal, Close, Close others, and Close tabs to the right.
- Open at a specific folder. Right-click a file or folder in Explorer and choose Open Terminal here to start a terminal at that location rather than the working-folder root.
The agent runs ordinary commands, such as builds, tests, and Git, with its own shell tool rather than your terminal tabs. It types into a Terminal tab only when a command needs interactive input or you ask it to. What the agent can run without asking depends on the approval mode. See Agent approval modes.
See also
- Explorer — browse the same working folder
- Extensions — the full list of extensions and their default states