automation

frankenterm: Orchestrate AI Coding Agents in Your Terminal

Empowers founders to capture pane output, detect state patterns, and control fleets of coding agents in WezTerm via a JSON API. Built in Rust for fast automation.

From the repo · “Terminal hypervisor for AI agent swarms: real-time pane capture, state-machine pattern detection, and a JSON API for coordinating fleets of coding agents across WezTerm”

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124 stars+2★ this week19 forksRustGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 13Updated 10/21/2026100% free · open source
What it is

You use frankenterm to manage swarms of AI coding agents with a command-line interface.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to automate tasks for their small e-commerce business. They write an automation with frankenterm to receive new payment notifications from Stripe and trigger a custom email with order details. Once set up, this automation runs in the background without requiring manual intervention."

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When to use it
  • •When you need to automate tasks across multiple terminals
  • •When you want to detect and respond to specific patterns in your terminal output
  • •When you have a fleet of coding agents that need to be coordinated across WezTerm
Ready-to-paste prompt
frankenterm json-api --command='create-agent' --args='{"name":"my-agent","pane":"pane-1"}'
Heads up: Make sure you have the latest version of Rust and Cargo installed, as frankenterm is built using Rust and requires a compatible runtime environment
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✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/frankenterm && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/frankenterm/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/frankenterm/SKILL.md
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Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)
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Details
Creator
Dicklesworthstone
Language
Rust
Category
automation
Published
1/18/2026

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