Terax fits a terminal, a code editor, a git client with a real commit graph, a web preview pane, and an agentic AI panel into a binary that takes about 7 to 8 MB on disk. Most tools that pack that much surface area ship far heavier. Terax gets there by building on Tauri 2 and Rust instead of a bundled browser runtime, and the result is a dev workspace you install without an account and run without a single telemetry ping.
What actually ships in those 7 MB
The repo, crynta/terax-ai, calls itself an ADE: an AI-native dev environment. The terminal is the core. It runs on xterm.js with a WebGL renderer and a native PTY backend through portable-pty, so zsh, bash, pwsh, fish, and cmd all behave as real shells. On Windows, each tab can target a different workspace environment, either Local or any installed WSL distro, and the README is explicit that WSL is a first-class environment, not a wrapped subprocess. You get split panels, inline search, link detection, and true color.
The editor is CodeMirror 6 with Vim mode and ten bundled themes, from Tokyo Night to Gruvbox to Xcode Dark. Source control is a full panel: stage and unstage individual hunks, commit with Ctrl+Enter, push with upstream awareness, and a history pane that draws an actual commit graph with lane rendering for merges and branches. The file explorer does fuzzy search, inline rename, and a Catppuccin icon theme. A web preview pane auto-detects local dev servers and opens them in a tab. None of this is a plugin you add later. It all lives in the base binary.
