GoKawiiltui-use Like BrowserUse, but for the terminal. tui-use gives agents access to the parts of the terminal that bash can't reach — every REPL, installer, and TUI app built for humans.
What is tui-use?
AI agents can run shell commands, read files, and call APIs. But they stall the moment a program asks for input — because most CLI tools were built for humans, not agents.
tui-use fills that gap. Spawn any program in a PTY, observe its screen as plain text, send keystrokes — all from the command line. If a human can operate it in a terminal, an agent can too.
Use cases:
REPL sessions — Run code in Python, Node, psql, or redis-cli, inspect the output, and keep going. No more one-shot scripts when you need an interactive session.
— Run code in Python, Node, psql, or redis-cli, inspect the output, and keep going. No more one-shot scripts when you need an interactive session. Interactive scaffolding tools — Step through npm create , cargo new , create-react-app , and any other CLI wizard that asks questions before doing anything.
— Step through , , , and any other CLI wizard that asks questions before doing anything. Database CLIs — Connect to psql or mysql, run queries, check schemas, without needing a separate API or ORM layer.
— Connect to psql or mysql, run queries, check schemas, without needing a separate API or ORM layer. SSH + remote interactive programs — SSH into a server and keep operating interactive programs on the other end, not just run one-off commands.
— SSH into a server and keep operating interactive programs on the other end, not just run one-off commands. TUI applications — Navigate vim, lazygit, htop, fzf, and other full-screen programs that were never designed to be scripted.
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