Show HN: Headless terminal – Puppeteer for terminals powered by libghostty

Category: devtools

Tags: terminal-automation, tui-testing, ai-agent

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

Headless terminal is a Puppeteer-like tool for automating terminal UI applications (vim, emacs, htop, etc.) via a daemon that provides pseudo-terminals and VT parsing. It's interesting because it enables AI agents, CI testing, and automation for interactive CLI tools that traditionally require human keyboard input.

Target audience: devops, backend devs, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/montanaflynn/headless-terminal · Go · MIT · 49 stars

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