tw93/Kaku
A fast, good-looking, AI-friendly terminal for the Mac.
Build with Backblaze B2
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 62 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 48% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, lightweight macOS terminal optimized for AI-assisted coding with built-in AI tools and curated shell plugins.
- Delivers instant startup and a polished, zero-config experience with native macOS theme awareness and WezTerm-compatible Lua configuration.
- Use for AI-driven command error recovery and natural language command generation directly within the terminal.
- Use for developers seeking a streamlined, GPU-accelerated terminal with advanced tab and pane ergonomics on macOS.
- Use for users wanting seamless integration of AI coding assistants like OpenAI, Copilot CLI, and others in their shell workflow.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
A fast, out-of-the-box terminal built for AI coding.
Kaku is a deeply customized fork of WezTerm, designed for an out-of-the-box experience.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
327+39
Open issues
3+2
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5.8K | +2.0K | 45 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| tw93/Kaku | 6.2K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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