There was a time when the terminal felt like the last private corner of software development. The browser got enterprise controls. The IDE got plugins, telemetry, policy, and procurement drama. The CI pipeline was always a tiny bureaucracy with YAML. But the terminal? The terminal was where developers went to be weird in peace. Aliases. Half-remembered shell scripts. curl | jq rituals. SSH sessions with the emotional stability of a raccoon in a server room. Now GitHub has announced enterprise-managed plugins for GitHub Copilot CLI , and I think the interesting part is not “Copilot can do more things in the terminal.” The interesting part is this: the terminal is becoming an AI action surface, and AI action surfaces eventually become governed runtimes. Not because vendors are evil. Not because platform teams are control freaks. Because once an assistant can touch tools, repositories, cloud accounts, secrets, and deployment paths, “just let developers use it” stops being serious.…