TurtleTerm

They say the world was built on the back of a turtle. TurtleTerm carries the shell on its back.

TurtleTerm is the SourceOS policy-aware, agent-addressable terminal workbench for trusted command execution, terminal receipts, agent delegation, and reproducible operator workflows.

TurtleTerm presents its own product surface: TurtleTerm launchers, TurtleTerm profile, TurtleTerm agent gateway, TurtleTerm release artifacts, and TurtleTerm skill manifests. Third-party notices and required license attribution are preserved in the repository license files and release artifacts.

Install

Tapless Homebrew install from this repository:

brew install --HEAD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SourceOS-Linux/TurtleTerm/main/packaging/homebrew/Formula/turtle-term.rb

Preferred public Homebrew flow after the tap is published:

brew install SourceOS-Linux/tap/turtle-term

Current tap HEAD formula flow after the tap is published:

brew install --HEAD SourceOS-Linux/tap/turtle-term

Local checkout flow:

brew install --HEAD ./packaging/homebrew/Formula/turtle-term.rb

Direct release artifact installer after the first TurtleTerm release exists:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SourceOS-Linux/TurtleTerm/main/packaging/scripts/install-turtle-term.sh | bash

See docs/sourceos/INSTALL.md for full install, profile activation, and validation instructions.

Launch

turtleterm

Commands

turtle-term paths
turtle-term run -- echo hello
turtle-agentctl --stdio ping
turtle-tmux panes

turtle-term is the command wrapper. turtleterm is the graphical launcher. sourceos-term remains available for SourceOS contract compatibility.

Product surfaces

• TurtleTerm graphical launcher
• TurtleTerm mux launcher
• TurtleTerm command wrapper
• TurtleTerm local agent gateway
• TurtleTerm agent CLI
• TurtleTerm tmux bridge
• TurtleTerm skill manifests
• TurtleTerm turtle icon
• TurtleTerm release artifacts, manifests, SBOMs, and attestations

License and notices

TurtleTerm is MIT licensed. Required third-party notices are preserved in LICENSE.md and release artifacts.