Mirafold Gives Terminal Agents a Browser UI

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Mirafold presents terminal coding agents through a browser interface. Its current product page describes structured output, a workspace diff, editable prompts built from selected hunks, session controls and approval controls. It says the underlying agent retains its engine and settings. That is a product claim to evaluate, not evidence that an extra interface cannot affect the workflow.

Updated 22 September 2026: combined two overlapping guides and corrected the passive-viewer framing. This proposed trial checks action controls, raw evidence and permissions; it is not a completed runtime audit.

Identify which controls can act

The current product description distinguishes generated output from the trusted shell containing the prompt and permission controls. It also describes local operation and a remote relay option. These features make the old description of a simple transcript re-skin incomplete.

Before testing a real task, identify which controls only display information, which prepare editable prompts and which send input or authorize an action. Use harmless fixture content to confirm the distinction. Do not assume that clicking a visually similar card has the same effect in every part of the interface.

Check the agent's actual permissions and credentials. A local browser does not establish local inference, and a branch does not isolate the process from other accessible files. Keep the first exercise in a disposable repository without production credentials or write access to external systems.

Compare the view with the actual work

Choose an existing failing test and a narrow repair. Record the failure, ask the agent for the change, and retain the command output from the final verification. This gives the reviewer a specific sequence to reconstruct: failure, edit, rerun and result.

Compare the workspace view with the actual Git diff and newly created files. Confirm that the display names the right project and session. In a multi-session interface, a correct-looking patch from the wrong repository is still the wrong evidence for the task.

Inspect a failed command and a skipped check as well as a passing result. If a generated summary hides either, find the raw output before deciding whether the patch is ready. A checked box can represent an agent's claim rather than an independently verified condition.

Test a handoff without replaying the conversation

Ask a second reviewer to find the changed files, the last relevant test run and the unresolved concern. Measure the effort informally against your usual terminal workflow. This is a local fit test, not a general benchmark of graphical versus terminal interfaces.

Keep the browser interface when it makes this evidence easier to retrieve without changing the intended action boundary. For a short task already clear in a terminal, another interface may add little value. Preserve a concise handoff beside the patch so a future reviewer can understand it without needing the same UI or session history.