Each session’s agent shows as an animated chibi girl who does what it does:
types while it works, reads while it searches, raises her hand when it waits for you, and naps when it’s done.

Ely Tea Party is a fork of ELYTerminal by Zachary Zhang, made with their permission. The terminal, its engine and its design are theirs; this fork adds one opinion on top: a terminal for running coding agents, where a glance at the left column tells you who is working, who is thinking and who is waiting for you.

Meet the party

Each girl has eight animations: working, researching, her special move, slacking off, thinking, waiting for you (with a red ”!”), idle and asleep.

Highlights

• 🫖 Characters that know what their agent does. With zero setup a character appears for any agent in a session’s foreground. One command installs hooks for every agent you have, and then her row says exactly what it’s doing: 改 src/pet/whale.rs, 跑 cargo test, 递卷轴等你. At the moments that matter she says a line of her own.
• 🐋 The whale girl peeks over your window. She follows your sessions: busy at her laptop while an agent works, a hand…