Warp today open-sourced its core product, introducing an agentic development environment (ADE) built in collaboration with its community and powered by Oz, its cloud agent orchestration platform. The release introduces Open Agentic Development, a new model for building software: one where even non-technical users can actively shape production-grade tools, while agents that understand the codebase implement and ship improvements in the open. OpenAI is the flagship sponsor of Warp's open-source repository, with GPT models powering the agentic workflows that ship improvements to the codebase, including GPT-5.5.
Coding agents are quickly becoming part of every developer’s workflow, but while tools have shown what a single agent can do, the infrastructure to manage them effectively at scale has not existed. As teams move from a handful of agents to dozens or hundreds, speed increases, but visibility, data control, and governance begin to break down. Warp is building the foundation that makes this manageable by combining its agentic development environment with cloud-based orchestration. Open-sourcing the product is a bet that it will improve faster with real-world use and scrutiny.
“Put simply, we believe that a diverse set of contributors with unique ideas, combined with Oz agents running structured workflows and continuous feedback loops, will produce a better product than we could build with our internal team alone,” said Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO, Warp. “We’re creating a flywheel where user ideas turn into shipped improvements, which attract more users and more ideas, accelerating how the product evolves. Ultimately, it’s about making agentic development actually work at scale.”
Warp is introducing a new contribution model where users submit feature requests and bugs directly from within the ADE or via GitHub. Public GitHub issues now serve as the system of record for features, roadmap, and discussion. Oz manages the lifecycle by triaging issues, asking clarifying questions, generating implementation plans, writing code, and opening pull requests, all in the open, with session links, reviews, and progress visible to anyone.
This model shifts contributors from writing code to shaping what gets built and verifying outcomes, while agents handle implementation. It also allows Warp to act on the long tail of user requests that would traditionally sit in backlogs. Every request that gets picked up becomes a live, public example of agent-driven development in a real codebase.
“Open source has long been central to how developers learn, build, and push the field forward. We’re excited to support experiments that explore how AI can help maintainers and contributors collaborate more effectively at scale,” said Thibault Sottiaux, Engineering Lead, OpenAI.
As of today, Warp’s Oz-driven workflow is available to other open-source projects as well, extending the model beyond its own product. With it, users can:
- Submit feature requests and track them from triage to production, with real-time visibility into progress
- Watch agents plan, implement, and review code in a live production codebase
- Contribute by describing what they want without needing to learn the codebase or even how to write code
Alongside the release, Warp is introducing several major product updates:
- Broader model support: Expanded support for a wide range of models, including leading open-weight options like Kimi, MiniMax, and Qwen, giving developers more flexibility in how they run agents
- Customizable interface modes: A flexible UI that can be configured from a pure terminal experience to a minimal agent setup with diff view and file tree or a full-featured ADE
- Settings file for programmatic control: A new settings system that allows both users and agents to configure Warp programmatically and sync setups across environments
Join us in building Warp today by exploring the repository and submitting ideas directly through the product or on GitHub.
About Warp
Warp is the platform for agentic development. What began as a reimagined terminal is now an agentic development environment (ADE) paired with Oz, a cloud-based platform for running and orchestrating coding agents at scale, with built-in visibility and control. Today, Warp is used by nearly one million developers at companies including Docker, Ramp, and Peloton, as well as leading AI labs, Big Tech, and over half of the Fortune 500. Warp was founded by Zach Lloyd, former principal engineer for Google Sheets and the Google Docs suite, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, GV, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, and Dylan Field. The company is based in New York and can be found online at warp.dev.
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