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Agents overview
# Agents overview The **Warp Agent** writes and edits code, debugs issues, runs commands, and works through multi-step tasks from natural language prompts. It reads your codebase, follows your rules and skills, and asks for approval before it acts. You reach the same agent three ways. Which one you pick depends on where you're working, not on what the agent can do. --- ## Ways to use the Warp Agent * [**In the Warp app**](/agents/local-agents/overview/) - The full experience, with code review, agent management, and the terminal alongside your conversation. Start here if you use Warp as your terminal. * [**In any terminal, with the Warp Agent CLI**](/agents/cli/) - Run the `warp` command to start an agent conversation in any terminal emulator, over SSH, or on a machine where the Warp app isn't installed. * [**In the cloud, as a cloud agent**](/platform/) - Run the agent in the background from a trigger, a schedule, or an integration, without keeping a session open. Ideal for PR reviews, issue triage, and routine maintenance. Your account, plan, model access, rules, and skills carry across all three, and conversations sync to your Warp account so you can move between them. --- ## Third-party CLI agents Separately from the Warp Agent, Warp gives third-party CLI coding agents first-class support. Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and others inside Warp and get rich input, agent notifications, inline code review, and remote session control. → [Learn about third-party CLI agents](/agents/cli-agents/overview/) --- ## The platform behind the agent [**Oz**](/platform/overview/) is Warp's programmable platform for running and coordinating agents at scale. It provides the environments, triggers, integrations, orchestration, and observability that cloud agents run on, along with a CLI, API, and SDK for driving agents programmatically. The Oz tab covers the platform in full. --- ## Getting started * [**Agents in Warp**](/agents/getting-started/agents-in-warp/) - A tour of what agents can do, autonomy levels, and profiles * [**Warp Agent CLI quickstart**](/agents/cli/quickstart/) - Install the CLI and run your first agent conversation * [**Cloud agents quickstart**](/platform/quickstart/) - Run your first agent in the cloud * [**Agent capabilities**](/agents/capabilities/) - Skills, planning, rules, MCP servers, and more * [**Agent FAQs**](/agents/getting-started/faqs/) - Common questions about models, privacy, and limits --- ## Open source Warp's client is open source under [AGPL v3](https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/master/LICENSE-AGPL), so the editor and terminal that host your agents are fully auditable. See [Contributing to Warp](/support-and-community/community/contributing/) for the source and contribution flow.Tell me about this feature: https://docs.warp.dev/agents/The Warp Agent writes code, debugs issues, and runs commands. Use it in the Warp app, in any terminal with the CLI, or in the cloud.
The Warp Agent writes and edits code, debugs issues, runs commands, and works through multi-step tasks from natural language prompts. It reads your codebase, follows your rules and skills, and asks for approval before it acts.
You reach the same agent three ways. Which one you pick depends on where you’re working, not on what the agent can do.
Ways to use the Warp Agent
Section titled “Ways to use the Warp Agent”- In the Warp app - The full experience, with code review, agent management, and the terminal alongside your conversation. Start here if you use Warp as your terminal.
- In any terminal, with the Warp Agent CLI - Run the
warpcommand to start an agent conversation in any terminal emulator, over SSH, or on a machine where the Warp app isn’t installed. - In the cloud, as a cloud agent - Run the agent in the background from a trigger, a schedule, or an integration, without keeping a session open. Ideal for PR reviews, issue triage, and routine maintenance.
Your account, plan, model access, rules, and skills carry across all three, and conversations sync to your Warp account so you can move between them.
Third-party CLI agents
Section titled “Third-party CLI agents”Separately from the Warp Agent, Warp gives third-party CLI coding agents first-class support. Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and others inside Warp and get rich input, agent notifications, inline code review, and remote session control.
→ Learn about third-party CLI agents
The platform behind the agent
Section titled “The platform behind the agent”Oz is Warp’s programmable platform for running and coordinating agents at scale. It provides the environments, triggers, integrations, orchestration, and observability that cloud agents run on, along with a CLI, API, and SDK for driving agents programmatically.
The Oz tab covers the platform in full.
Getting started
Section titled “Getting started”- Agents in Warp - A tour of what agents can do, autonomy levels, and profiles
- Warp Agent CLI quickstart - Install the CLI and run your first agent conversation
- Cloud agents quickstart - Run your first agent in the cloud
- Agent capabilities - Skills, planning, rules, MCP servers, and more
- Agent FAQs - Common questions about models, privacy, and limits
Open source
Section titled “Open source”Warp’s client is open source under AGPL v3, so the editor and terminal that host your agents are fully auditable. See Contributing to Warp for the source and contribution flow.