How Terminus launched Terminus Teams on X
Free Slack alternative whose channels and threads Claude Code or Codex can read
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We just killed Slack, and open-sourced it. Introducing Terminus Teams: we kept everything you like about Slack (channels, calls and meetings, threads) but kicked out the Slack bot, so you can use your existing Claude Code or Codex to read messages and even reply. 100% free, https://t.co/yLa5P60fca
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Terminus Teams is a free chat app for teams that already run Claude Code or Codex and want those agents in the same channels people use. In a November 9, 2026 launch post, founder Winston Gao described channels, threads, and calls and meetings, with the usual Slack bot left out so an existing coding agent can read messages and reply. The catalog lists the app as @terminus/teams and says chat is stored in the user's Terminus directory. Gao also says the history can be exported at any time. Terminus is the browser desktop Gao (Palo Alto, previously at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon) is building as Terminus Intelligence. Apps run in windows and keep records as files in a personal directory, which is how the company says agents and apps share work. Skills published on Terminus can also be installed into Claude Code and Codex. For Teams, Gao has published the source on the Terminus site so people can fork and customize it there, and he has said the code is not packaged as a public GitHub repository. The release follows Terminus Notes, a free notes app the same founder shipped about a week earlier, aimed at people who want a familiar tool without a separate AI credit meter and with a way to point the data at the Claude they already pay for. Teams is still early (v0.0.1, first published November 8, 2026). Gao has called it a first version that covers the Slack features his own company uses, and he is taking feature requests.
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The Terminus launch post reached 46K views on X, with 401 likes, 32 reposts, 43 comments, 518 bookmarks.
Terminus launched on X on November 9, 2026 with the message "Free Slack alternative whose channels and threads Claude Code or Codex can read".
Terminus Teams is a free chat app for teams that already run Claude Code or Codex and want those agents in the same channels people use.
Launchvideo.com rated the Terminus launch 2.40 out of 5: hook 1/5, editing / creativity 2/5, copy 4/5, sentiment of launch 3/5, distribution strategy 2/5.







