Show HN: Hty – Puppeteer for the terminal let's AI agents drive interactive CLIs

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, cli-tool, terminal-emulator

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

hty is a tool that wraps interactive CLI programs in persistent PTY sessions, enabling AI agents to drive them programmatically with wait primitives and other features. It fills a key gap for agent behavior, offering a single binary with live watch, replay, and export capabilities.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, AI engineers

Repository: https://hty.sh/ · Zig · 4 stars

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