A native macOS terminal, browser, knowledge base, and agentic workflows in one app.
Cairn stands on three open-source projects.
Ghostty is the terminal. Cairn is a fork that adds a Chromium companion pane, an apps daemon for scriptable workflows, and durable backup of session state.
CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) is the browser pane. Real Chromium, embedded as a first-class surface alongside the terminal.
pi-mono is the agent. A minimal coding-agent harness, extensible through TypeScript extensions, skills, and prompt templates.
Everything that's open in Ghostty, CEF, and pi-mono stays open. Cairn is the macOS shell that wraps them into one product.