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Warp Open-Sources Its Client With GPT-Driven Agent Workflow

The company shifts product planning to public GitHub to speed features through an agent-led workflow.

Overview

  • Warp, which announced the move Tuesday, published its desktop client on GitHub under AGPL v3 while its UI framework uses MIT licensing.
  • OpenAI is the founding sponsor and GPT models power Oz, Warp’s cloud system that runs and coordinates coding agents, with the commercial cloud kept separate from the open client.
  • Development now runs through public GitHub issues where maintainers label items for specification or implementation before human review and merge.
  • Contributors can use Oz in the cloud to have agents build code or work locally and submit pull requests through GitHub.
  • The release adds support for open models such as Kimi, MiniMax, and Qwen through a new “auto (open)” router that picks a model for each task.