# Terminal Use

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Terminal Use and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Managed cloud service for filesystem-based agents, handling chat history, session recovery and streaming. Critics say its filesystem and coding-agent assumptions may not fit their use case.

## Why people recommend it

- Filesystem as core, decoupled primitive (5 comments): "the decoupled filesystem model makes a lot of sense for long-running agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318617)) "The filesystem-as-first-class-primitive is the right abstraction." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314936)) "The filesystem-as-first-class-primitive approach is interesting." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319030))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Klaus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/klaus.md): 11 recommend
- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-bedrock-agentcore.md): 9 recommend
- [agent37 Managed OpenClaw hosting](https://hackerapproved.com/p/agent37-managed-openclaw-hosting.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Terminal Use", https://hackerapproved.com/p/terminal-use/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).