This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by AbdulGoniyy Adeleke Dare
Reimagining the support terminal as an intelligent workbench for debugging, automating, and understanding complex developer issues.
🚀 Introduction
As developers, we spend countless hours inside terminals — troubleshooting, debugging, and supporting systems.
But what if the terminal wasn’t just a passive command line…
What if it could think with you?
That’s the idea behind Warp’s platform for Agentic Development — where AI agents work alongside engineers to code, deploy, and debug faster.
To explore this concept, I built a mini project called warp-support-cases — a collection of real-world troubleshooting scenarios inspired by everyday DevOps and Support Engineer tasks.
Each case simulates an issue, shows terminal outputs, and demonstrates how an AI-driven terminal like Warp could provide contextual insights in real time.
⚙️ Project Overview: warp-support-cases
Goal:
To simulate how Warp’s intelligent terminal could assist Support Engineers in diagnosing and resolving real DevOps issues.
Scenarios Covered:
- File permission and ownership conflicts
- SSH connectivity and routing issues
- Missing binaries or misconfigured paths
- Network latency and timeouts
- Configuration drift across environments
Stack:
- Linux CLI (Ubuntu-based)
- Common tools:
ssh,ping,nc,ip route - Optional integrations:
nmap,journalctl,systemctl - Warp Terminal as the experimental interface
🧩 Case 1: Permission Denied (File Ownership Conflict)
🖥️ Terminal Log
$ touch /var/www/html/config.php
touch: cannot touch '/var/www/html/config.php': Permission denied
$ ls -ld /var/www/html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 12:40 /var/www/html
🤖 Agentic Insight (What Warp Could Do)
“It looks like the directory
/var/www/htmlis owned by root.
Try usingsudoor adjusting permissions withchown.”
💡 Resolution
sudo chown -R user:www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html
✅ The user now has write access and can edit web files safely.
🌐 Case 2: SSH Timeout (Unreachable Host)
🖥️ Terminal Log
ssh user@192.168.10.55
ssh: connect to host 192.168.10.55 port 22: Connection timed out
ping -c 4 192.168.10.55
PING 192.168.10.55 (192.168.10.55) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 192.168.10.55 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss
🤖 Agentic Insight
“The host 192.168.10.55 is unreachable.
You appear to be on a different subnet (192.168.43.x).
Check if a VPN or routing rule is required to reach 192.168.10.x.”
🧠 Analysis
- Ping failed → No ICMP response
- SSH timed out → No TCP connection
- Routing mismatch → 43.x trying to reach 10.x
- Likely issue → Different network segment or firewall blocking port 22
💡 Resolution
- Verify target host is online
- Connect to the same network or VPN
- Check local and remote firewalls
- Confirm correct IP assignment with:
ip route get 192.168.10.55
⛓️ Case 3: PATH Misconfiguration
🖥️ Terminal Log
$ ls
bash: ls: command not found
🤖 Agentic Insight
“The command
lswas not found in yourPATH.
YourPATHis currently set to/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin.
Thelscommand is usually in/bin/ls.
You can either use the full path/bin/lsor add/binto yourPATH.”
💡 Resolution
export PATH=$PATH:/bin
✅ The user can now run standard commands without specifying the full path.
🎮 Application Development with Warp: Minesweeper in React
To showcase Warp’s capabilities beyond troubleshooting, I developed a classic Minesweeper game using React. This exercise demonstrated how Warp’s AI can assist in the development lifecycle, from scaffolding a new project to debugging React components.
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Project:
minesweeper-react - Purpose: To build a classic Minesweeper game using modern web technologies (React 19, Vite) from within the Warp terminal.
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WARP.md: A special file was created to provide development guidance and context to Warp’s AI. It outlines the project structure, core development commands, and architectural patterns, enabling Warp to assist more effectively. - Outcome: This showcases how Warp can be a primary environment for building, testing, and documenting a software project.
🤝 Why This Matters
In real support workflows, engineers spend valuable time correlating logs, commands, and system states.
An agentic terminal like Warp could automate context understanding, recommend next actions, and even execute verified remediations.
This reduces friction between debugging and decision-making — turning reactive troubleshooting into proactive engineering.
📦 Repository
All terminal cases and documentation are available here:
👉 github.com/daretechie/warp-support-cases
🚀 Get Warp
Ready to try the future of the terminal? Download Warp here.
🔮 My Take on Agentic Terminals
Warp represents the next step in developer tooling — terminals that think alongside you.
Through this project, I observed three agentic opportunities:
- Proactive Diagnostics: Detecting environment issues (like PATH or permission errors) and auto-suggesting verified fixes.
- Collaborative Debug Sessions: Warp AI could summarise a terminal session’s commands and insights into a shareable incident report.
- Adaptive Context Memory: The terminal could recall previous fixes or commands across sessions to reduce repetitive troubleshooting.
These align with Warp’s mission of evolving from a powerful shell to a developer workbench for intelligent agents.
I’m excited to see how Warp and similar tools will reshape developer workflows in the coming years.
🏷️ Tags
DevOps #AI #Warp #SupportEngineering #AgenticDevelopment #Automation #Debugging
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by AbdulGoniyy Adeleke Dare
AbdulGoniyy Adeleke Dare | Sciencx (2025-10-18T17:20:42+00:00) Exploring Warp: Building the Future of Agentic Support Engineering. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/10/18/exploring-warp-building-the-future-of-agentic-support-engineering/
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