Vetro

        OPEN SOURCE · NATIVE MACOS
      

The terminal built for agents.

Tabs organized by project, notifications when an agent finishes its task, an AI-powered diff viewer, and the option to quickly move a project into a VM that runs faster than your macOS filesystem.

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Vetro — projects and chats sidebar, grok session in a real shell

✦ NEW

AI summaries of changes

One click and the model of your choice reads the working tree and explains what actually changed — per file, with the why.

+ use your own codex / grok subscriptions at no extra cost

Vetro changes panel — AI summary by grok-4.6 and integrated diff viewer

/// PROVISIONING

VMs in seconds, from golden images

dev-vm-2 golden image hit

✓Clone golden disk — APFS clonefile0.4s
✓Boot — EFI, virtio2.9s
✓Clone-init: hostname, keys1.7s
Push credentials over ssh

✓ claude ✓ codex ✓ grok 6 cpu · 8 GB

Pick CPU, RAM and agents; cloud-init does the rest. The first VM of a config is captured as a scrubbed golden image — every later one clones it instantly.

/// NETWORK

Ports that follow you home

Port 3000 detected in dev-vm Forward ×

Forwarded ports

guest5173→localhost:5173↗×
guest8080→localhost:8080↗×
guest5432→localhost:5433remapped×

A watcher inside the guest diffs live listeners and mirrors them onto your Mac's loopback — chips on the project row, click to open, × to stop.

/// NOTIFICATIONS

Agent Notifications

Lifecycle hooks installed into claude, codex and grok report real events, with status next to the chat to see the current state

prompt-submit stop notification session-end

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Claude finishednow

Fix flaky auth test — 41 tests passing

Refactor billing workerworking

Fix flaky auth testneeds review

/// BENCHMARKS

Faster inside the VM than outside it.

Agent workloads on ext4 skip the APFS metadata tax and per-spawn Gatekeeper checks — the two things that make agentic coding 10–15× slower on macOS.

pnpm install — TS monorepo

vm 2.2× faster

vm

13.61s

macOS

30.10s

git clean — node_modules

vm 9× faster

vm

2.87s

macOS

25.73s

2,825 Jest tests — CPU-bound

no VM tax

vm

35.55s

macOS

35.40s