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Terminal optimised for AI coding. Version 0.28.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

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macOS

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brew install --cask kaku

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overview

Package summary

Terminal optimised for AI coding

Commands and aliases

  • kaku

From the blog

When terminals become control surfaces

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Project history and usage

Kaku is an open-source, macOS-focused GPU terminal derived from WezTerm and tailored for AI-assisted coding. It combines conventional tabs, panes, shell tooling, and Lua customization with command-failure suggestions, natural-language command generation, and an AI chat panel.

Project history

The author describes Kaku as growing out of long-term command-line use and experience with Alacritty, followed by exploration of kitty, Ghostty, Warp, and iTerm2. It was built as a deeply customized fork of WezTerm with smaller binaries, curated defaults, and integrated AI assistance.

Adoption history

Kaku is distributed as a notarized macOS application and through Homebrew. Its documentation currently describes it as macOS-only.

How it is used

Users run Kaku as their interactive development terminal, managing tabs and panes while retaining WezTerm-compatible Lua customization. Optional assistant features can suggest fixes for failed commands, generate commands from natural language, and provide an integrated chat panel.

Terminal behavior and appearance belong in kaku.lua. The kaku ai setup flow writes assistant provider, model, authentication, and API-key settings to assistant.toml.

Why package nerds care

Kaku represents the convergence of the configurable GPU-terminal tradition with AI coding workflows. Its WezTerm-compatible Lua configuration lowers migration friction for users who already curate terminal dotfiles.

Timeline

  • Initial project direction: A customized WezTerm fork was created around practical defaults and AI-oriented terminal workflows.

Related projects

  • WezTerm is Kaku's upstream foundation and configuration model.
  • The author presents Kaku alongside the related Waza and Kami projects.

Sources

  • Official README and project background: https://github.com/tw93/Kaku
  • Official configuration documentation: https://github.com/tw93/Kaku/blob/main/docs/configuration.md
  • Official features documentation: https://github.com/tw93/Kaku/blob/main/docs/features.md

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Configuration files

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macOS
~/.config/kaku/kaku.lua~/.config/kaku/assistant.toml

Credential files

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macOS
~/.config/kaku/assistant.toml

executables

Installed executables

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kakubinaryHomebrew cask binarykaku

freshness

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page generated2026-11-04
manager version0.28.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/tw93/Kaku

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  • infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/tw93/Kakunone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:kaku
Version0.28.0
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/kaku
Homepagehttps://github.com/tw93/Kaku
Repositoryhttps://github.com/tw93/Kaku
Source archivehttps://github.com/tw93/Kaku/releases/download/V0.28.0/Kaku.dmg
SHA-256156afc48f477c12b95c58d519772dcb4ae774c968c0876fa96d7f648a0805dfe
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

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Source DatabaseHomebrew cask API
Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenkaku
Names
  • Kaku
Artifacts
App
1
Binary
1
Target
2
Zap
1
Auto Updatesyes
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

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