Lectra's coding workspace got an AI agent and real SSH

The terminal, git, and Python were the foundation. This is what you can do on top of them now.

Once Lectra had a real shell, real git, and real Python running on the iPad, the next question was what you build on top of them. Two things landed. The first is a coding agent: you describe what you want, and it reads your files, proposes edits, and runs your project's tests, working through the task a step at a time, showing every file change and command for your approval before anything happens, and refusing anything risky.

It follows a deliberate rhythm instead of free-forming: write down the spec, break it into a checklist, do one item at a time, review the result, and only then commit, the same disciplined loop a careful engineer would use, kept in plain files you can read and edit yourself. It never pushes to GitHub unless you ask.

The second addition is real SSH. The built-in terminal can now connect to another machine, a lab server or your own computer, and behaves like a genuine terminal, colors, full-screen programs and all, so the tools you'd run at a desk run from the iPad too. Between the agent and SSH, the iPad stops being a place you only read code and becomes a place you can actually work on it.

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