Stop Making TUIs

Terminal Apps need a DOM | C1

agent-tui runs terminal programs on a PTY and exposes the rendered screen as text or an outline with stable refs. Agents can drive live TUIs, including other AI agents, by snapshotting, pressing keys, and waiting for screen state.

Ratatui

Ratatui: Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces in Rust - the fast and lightweight TUI library trusted by developers

fx – a terminal JSON viewer & processor

A terminal viewer & processor for JSON, YAML, & TOML (TUI and CLI)

GitHub - sst/opentui: OpenTUI is a library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

OpenTUI is a library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) - sst/opentui

CLI Reference - Turso

Complete reference for the AgentFS command-line interface

GitHub - ratatui/ratatui: A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs

A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs - ratatui/ratatui

Terminal Apps

A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.

Command Line Interface Guidelines

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

tuicr - TUI for Code Reviews

GitHub - denisidoro/navi: An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line - denisidoro/navi

Matter CLI - Matter Documentation

Terminal client for your Matter reading library — CLI mode for scripting and an interactive TUI for browsing.

The world is something that we make // Terminal

“...and could just as easily make differently.”

Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal.

Terminal Trove showcases the best of the terminal, Discover a collection of CLI, TUI, and more developer tools at Terminal Trove.

ui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineer

A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.