Kaku

Kaku An AI-friendly Mac terminal with sensible defaults, ready out of the box. English · 中文 · 繁體 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Deutsch · Français

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Why

Kaku (書く, かく) means "to write" in Japanese. It is a macOS terminal based on WezTerm, with fonts, themes, shell integration, and Mac shortcuts already configured, while preserving full Lua customization.

As the coding foundation of the trilogy, Kaku works alongside Waza (opens in a new tab) (技), built around engineering habits, and Kami (opens in a new tab) (紙), built for shipping documents, so writing code, building habits, and shipping documents flow from one to the next.

Features

• Ready to use: JetBrains Mono, automatic dark and light themes, copy on select, and familiar Mac shortcuts
• Tabs and panes: Split your workspace, jump between tabs with Tab Navigator, and restore windows, panes, and working directories when you reopen Kaku
• Right-click menu: Paste, search, open AI chat, split or close the clicked pane, and open or close tabs without remembering shortcuts
• Clickable links: Cmd + Click opens URLs and file paths, and URLs automatically wrapped by the terminal keep their full address
• AI-friendly: Use your coding tools alongside an optional assistant for command suggestions and chat
• Shell tools: Built-in zsh completion, syntax highlighting, and directory jumping, with shortcuts for optional Lazygit and Yazi installations
• Lua configuration: Customize fonts, themes, shortcuts, and terminal behavior using WezTerm's Lua configuration system

Usage Guide

Kaku AI

Configure your own AI service with kaku ai to use the built-in assistant. Kaku does not provide or relay the AI service.

• Command suggestions: When a command fails, the configured assistant can suggest a fix, and Cmd + Shift + E pastes it at the prompt for review
• Natural language to command: Type # at the prompt and press Enter, and the assistant places the generated command at the prompt for you to review and run
• Chat: Press Cmd + L to discuss terminal output or work with project files and tools, or run kaku chat from another shell to access the same conversation store
• AI Tools Config: Manage settings for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Kimi Code, and more

For authentication, models, API Mode, and tool settings, see the [AI assistant docs](docs/features.md).

Docs

• [Keybindings](docs/keybindings.md) - full shortcut reference