Integrate Warp with Your Mac’s Finder

Brian Schlining
2 min readFeb 19, 2024
Add a button to open Warp at the current directory in the Finder

When browsing directories in the Mac’s Finder, it saves a lot of time to have a button that will open a terminal window into whatever directory is selected in the Finder. I’ve previously written some AppleScript to integrate iTerm with the Finder, but lately I’ve been using Warp as my preferred terminal app on Macs, so I created the script below:

Steps to Create the App

  1. Open Script Editor
  2. Paste in the code above for WarpHere.scpt
  3. Save the script somewhere. The location doesn’t matter, but I usually use ~/Library/Scripts.
  4. In Script Editor, select “File > Export…”. In the export dialog window, make sure you set the “File Format” to “Application”. Also, if you’re on Mojave, you can avoid nagging security dialogs by signing your applications … if you have a developer account and configured a signing certificate you can select a signing identity next to “Code Sign”. On Sonoma, under “Coder Sign”, you must either select “Sign to Run Locally” or sign with a signing identity, which you can obtain from…

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Brian Schlining

Polyglot coder. Deep-sea Researcher. Zazen aficionado. I think squids are pretty cool.