A terminal for Windows · by Deep Answer Labs
Ember is built for people who run AI coding CLIs all day. Every session is a card that says what it's doing, every terminal has a panel the agent can draw on, and your project gets a map that stays current. PowerShell underneath, untouched.
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01 — Bring your own CLI
Ember drives the coding CLI you already have installed, signed in the way you already are, on your own subscription. You choose which one it uses. There's no key field to fill in and no Ember account.
On first launch Ember checks which CLIs are on your machine and offers a one-click install for the rest.
Which CLI should Ember use?
Uses your existing login. Change it any time.
02 — The tour
Sessions sit in a sidebar, not a tab strip, because each one carries real state. Ember reads the state off the screen itself: working, waiting on you, or idle. A small animated sprite on each card shows it, so you can see which agent needs you without opening anything.
Cards also carry the git branch and dirty count, and the one waiting on you tints amber with a quiet chime. Nothing goes to the notification centre.
Each terminal has a second half. Over MCP, the agent puts the shape of its answer there: a diagram, a table, a mockup, a chart. The panel stays closed until there's something on it, then springs open.
It works both ways. Buttons in the panel type into the terminal beside it. Point at a row and ask about it, and your question goes to the session with that row quoted.
CtrlShiftG opens a zoomable picture of a project: areas, repos, apps, services, data stores and the connections between them. The agent surveys it once, then keeps it up to date. When something actually changes, it updates the parts that moved instead of redrawing, so the picture stays where you learned it.
Sessions at work show up as live rings on the parts they're editing. New and changed parts glow, and every version is kept so you can scrub back.
CtrlShiftS lays out every session as a card: its state and for how long, its folder and branch, how much context it has used, and the last thing its agent said. Cards that need you sort first. Type into any of them from right there.
Plain Markdown files in a folder you own. The agent reads and writes them with the notes and todo commands, no tool setup needed.
ember CLIEvery action the window has is one command. Run it from the command line, a button, or ember split right in any shell, agents included.
Put a terminal beside or below the one you're in, then drag the seam.
Ember's own palettes plus ports of Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox and more. Each one re-tints the whole window, not only the text.
Two springs, a stiff head and a slack tail. It stretches with speed and settles to nothing. You can tune it or turn it off.
Frosted while you're in the window, plain see-through glass when you're not. Mica or flat are one setting away.
CtrlShiftEnter hides all the chrome. Just the terminal.
PowerShell runs through the same ConPTY Windows Terminal ships with. Your profile, oh-my-posh and PSReadLine behave exactly as before.
03 — How it works
Run the installer. It installs just for you, so there's no admin prompt, and adds Start Menu and desktop shortcuts.
Ember finds the coding CLIs you already have. Choose one, or install another with one click.
Open sessions, hand them tasks, and keep an eye on all of them from the sidebar. The panel and the Map fill in as you go.
04 — Keys
Press F1 inside Ember for the full list. Most things are also a word in CtrlK.
05 — Questions
No. Ember never asks for an LLM API key. It runs the coding CLI you already have installed (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, OpenCode or Copilot CLI) using that CLI's own login and your own subscription. Ember doesn't bill you for anything. The only keys it ever takes are for the optional voice features, and only if you choose to turn them on.
Nothing. Ember is free, with no account, no trial and no paid tier. Whatever your CLI costs is between you and its provider, the same as it is today.
Not yet. Ember is Windows only for now (Windows 10 and 11, x64). It's built around ConPTY and the Windows glass effects, so Windows came first.
Not yet. The installer isn't code signed, so SmartScreen warns you the first time you run it. Click More info, then Run anyway. It installs just for you and never asks for admin rights.
Your work goes where your CLI already sends it, the same as in any terminal. Ember has no account and no telemetry. The few calls it makes on its own belong to features you can see and turn off, like the plan-usage chip and the Map checking your repos for changes. Your settings, notes, todos and maps are plain files in your user folder.
No. Ember replaces the window, not the shell. Your profile, modules, oh-my-posh and PSReadLine run as they always have. Shell integration wraps your prompt without replacing it, and you can turn it off.