Terminal Use

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Vercel for background agents

Winter 2026Founded 20264 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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Agent Orchestration InfraSaaSAI engineers, agent developersLow competition

Moat

CLI-first design + filesystem integration for agents; positioning as 'Vercel for agents' captures workflow demand.

Key risk

Nascent market; competing definitions of 'agent orchestration'; risk that agents don't need specialized infra.

Why now

Agent adoption explosion; developers need orchestration, observability, and deployment tools; market emerging.

Competitors

Emerging space, early-stage competitors

About

Terminal Use is an orchestration platform for background agents. Purpose-built for agents that use filesystems. Our platform is CLI-first, making it easy for your coding agents to experiment and continuously improve your deployed agents.

Founders · 3

Vivek RajaFounder

Palantir

Previously led technical delivery of one of the largest agents use case at Palantir

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Filip BaluchaFounder

Palantir

Enabling long-running background agents. Previously Ontology @ Palantir.

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Stavros FilosidisFounder

Palantir

Building the missing infrastructure for deploying agents. Previously worked on coding infrastructure at Palantir.

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Feb 2026

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Terminal Use is hosting infrastructure for background agents that makes harness engineering easy

Terminal Use launches as infrastructure for hosting background agents, providing a secure, framework-agnostic environment and messaging integration to run and test filesystem-based agents (e.g., Claude/Code SDKs) with parallel experimentation and shared filesystems. Targeted at teams building and iterating coding agents, it aims to simplify deployment, isolation, and resource permissions, enabling faster agent development.

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