Warp made the terminal smart. Aura makes the commit accountable.
Warp is a reimagined terminal — blocks instead of a scrollback, an agent that runs commands for you, and a workflow library. Aura also ships a terminal, but it is a means rather than the product: what Aura is for is what happens after an agent stops typing.
What each one is for
What Warp is great at
- The terminal itself
Blocks, sharing, search, and an input that behaves like a text field. It fixed things everyone had stopped noticing were broken.
- Agent mode
Natural language to shell command, with the agent able to run multi-step work.
- Workflows and notebooks
Saved, parameterised commands shared across a team is a small idea that pays off daily.
What Aura adds on top
- Repository understanding
Warp understands commands. Aura understands your code — the AST, the call graph, which function each change touched.
- A commit gate
The intent check and the deletion guard run when a commit is made, whichever terminal made it, including Warp.
- Multi-agent orchestration
Worktrees, a dependency graph, a collision radar, and a proof before the merge.
- Open source
Aura’s engine, CLI and extension are Apache-2.0.
Dimension by dimension
Side by side
When to pick which
Pick Warp if…
- The terminal is the tool you want improved.
Pick Aura if…
- The commits coming out of that terminal are what you cannot verify.
Keep Warp. Add the control layer.
Keep Warp as your terminal. Install the Aura CLI and every commit made in it goes through the intent check and the deletion guard.
Aura & Warp
Does Aura replace my terminal?
No. Aura has one built in for driving agents, but the CLI works in any terminal, Warp included.
Will Aura slow my terminal down?
The hook runs at commit time, not per keystroke. On a normal repository it is a fraction of a second.
Ship with proof, not hope
Free public beta for macOS and Linux. Point it at a repo and keep driving Warp, now with a semantic diff, a verdict and a record on every change.