Terminator: Hasta La Vista, Shell

Summary

🤖💥 Terminator - Terminal Session Manager Keep Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI coding assistants working without disruption. "I'll be back... to manage your Terminal sessions." Mission Briefing Terminator is an advanced AppleScript-powered Terminal session manager designed to hunt down inefficient workflows and terminate them with extreme prejudice. This cybernetic organism solves a critical problem in AI coding assistants: the dreaded hanging command loop break. The Problem: Loop Termination When AI coding assistants like Cursor execute commands that hang or run indefinitely, they break their execution loop and become unresponsive. This forces developers to: Manually intervene and kill processes Restart the AI assistant Lose context and momentum Experience frustrating workflow interruptions The result? Productivity crashes harder than Skynet's network. The Solution: Process Isolation Terminator implements process isolation by running commands in separate Terminal sessions. This means: ✅ Loop Continuity : AI assistant stays responsive even with hanging commands : AI assistant stays responsive even with hanging commands ✅ Faster Execution : Commands run asynchronously in dedicated processes : Commands run asynchronously in dedicated processes ✅ Better Control : Intelligent process termination when needed : Intelligent process termination when needed ✅ Context Preservation: Session state persists across operations Core Directive Just like the T-800's mission to protect, Terminator's primary objective is to protect your development loop by: Creating and managing persistent Terminal sessions Isolating command execution from AI assistant processes Grouping related tasks by project Intelligently interrupting busy processes when needed Providing reliable session state management Deployment Instructions Training Your AI Assistant To maximize loop performance, train your AI coding assistant (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to use Terminator instead of direct shell execution: ❌ Inst...