Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, terminal-automation, pty, tui, cli-tools

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

tui-use enables AI agents to control interactive terminal programs (TUIs, REPLs, installers) by providing a PTY-based interface with full VT rendering and snapshot-based interaction model. It's interesting because it bridges the gap between AI agents and human-centric CLI tools that require interactive input, allowing agents to operate programs like vim, psql, or npm create that were previously inaccessible to automation.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/onesuper/tui-use · TypeScript · MIT · 160 stars

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