Portaterm

VS Code & Cursor extension

A real terminal you can put anywhere

Sidebar, secondary sidebar, bottom panel, or an editor tab. Split it, tab it, theme it — and use it as a home base for your AI coding agents.

Install for VS Code Open VSX (Cursor & others)
ext install mhd.portaterm
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • OpenCode
  • Cursor
Portaterm in a VS Code sidebar: three terminal tabs, a hover preview of a source file opened from a path in the terminal output, and the embedded file tree below.

At a glance

  • Put it anywhere

    Primary sidebar, secondary sidebar, bottom panel, or editor tab — each location remembers its own state.

  • AI Coding Vault

    Preview Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor CLI, and Cursor IDE history in one panel, and continue supported sessions.

  • AI-CLI aware

    Clickable file paths, syntax-highlighted hover previews, and pasted-image previews in agent output.

  • Tabs & split panes

    Recursive horizontal and vertical splits with drag-to-resize. Pin the tabs you never want to lose.

  • Survives reloads

    Shells stay alive across window reloads; after a full restart, scrollback, names, cwd, and layout come back.

  • Export

    Save the full scrollback or any single command's output to a file, ANSI-stripped or raw.

  • Real & fast

    node-pty backed, WebGL rendered, and follows your editor theme — dark, light, or high contrast.

  • Embedded file tree

    Git decorations, live filesystem sync, search, and drag a row into a pane to insert its path.

AI Coding Vault

Every agent session, in one panel.

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor all keep their history in different places. The Vault surfaces them together, with each tool's supported actions.

  • Preview first, then act. Resume Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode sessions; Cursor Resume is available for validated CLI chats.
  • Group your way — Recent, Agent, or Folder — and narrow to “This folder only”.
  • Right-click for more: resume in a new tab, reveal in Finder, copy the resume command.

The Vault reads each tool's own local store. Nothing is sent off your machine.

The AI Vault panel grouped by agent, listing recent Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor Agent sessions with their folder and age.

Session preview

The whole story, without leaving the terminal.

  • First prompt, a timeline of tool and sub-agent steps, the latest reply, and activity stats.
  • Sub-agents render as nested, highlighted blocks — including Codex threads and Cursor tasks.
  • Questions the agent asked you show your answer and every option.
  • A movable floating window that remembers its size and position.
A floating session preview showing a conversation's first prompt, a timeline of tool steps, and message, token, and tool counts.

Made for AI coding CLIs

Agents flood the terminal with paths, diffs, and image attachments. Portaterm makes that output navigable.

  • Clickable paths

    Opens src/foo.ts:42:7, line ranges, tracebacks, Windows paths, and wrapped Claude/Codex output at the right line.

  • Hover to preview

    Syntax-highlighted previews with line numbers. Dotfiles and sensitive folders stay closed unless you hold Cmd/Ctrl.

  • Pasted images

    Hover an [Image #N] placeholder to see what you actually attached — captured locally at paste time.

Get started

  1. Install Portaterm from the VS Code Marketplace, or from Open VSX for Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, and other compatible editors.
  2. Click the Portaterm icon in the Activity Bar — a session starts automatically.
  3. Drag the view to any sidebar, panel, or editor group. Add tabs or split panes from the title bar.
  4. Open the AI Vault from the panel header to browse and continue your agent sessions.

Requires VS Code 1.105+ or Cursor 3.2.21+, on macOS, Linux, or Windows. Installs alongside AnyWhere Terminal without conflicts.