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A unified interface for AI in your terminal.

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What it is

A unified interface for AI in your terminal.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Dec 15	2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC	2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Dec 22	2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC	2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
Dec 29	2025-12-29 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 5	2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 12	2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jan 19	2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 26	2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC	2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2	2026-02-02 00:00:00 UTC	2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 9	2026-02-09 00:00:00 UTC	2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 16	2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC	2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 23	2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC	2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2	2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC	2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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Mar 16	2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC	2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 23	2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC	2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 30	2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC	2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 6	2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC	2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0

What Hacker News says

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halfwhey·Apr 12, 2026Submission

Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

Hello everyone. Claudraband wraps a Claude Code TUI in a controlled terminal to enable extended workflows. It uses tmux for visible controlled sessions or xterm.js for headless sessions (a little slower), but everything is mediated by an actual Claude Code TUI. One example of a workflow I use now is having my current Claude Code interrogate older sessions for certain decisions it made: https://github.com/halfwhey/claudraband?tab=readme-ov-file#s... This project provides: - Resumable non-interactive workflows. Essentially `claude -p` with session support: `cband continue <session-id> 'what was the result of the research?'` - HTTP server to remotely control a Claude Code session: `cband serve --port 8123` - ACP server to use with alternative frontends such as Zed or Toad (https://github.com/batrachianai/toad): `cband acp --model haiku`. - T

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ypeScript library so you can integrate these workflows into your own application. This exists cause I was using `tmux send-keys` heavily in a lot of my Claude Code workflows, but I wanted to streamline it.

120 points · Open discussion

maphew·Jan 14, 2026

On the flicker free console as well as agent agnostic front, also see BatrachianAI's Toad (https://github.com/batrachianai/toad). Maybe you two should/could collaborate.

In Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)

NSPG911·Dec 24, 2025

It's more like just a simple toml file. https://github.com/batrachianai/toad/tree/main/src%2Ftoad%2F... gets you the currently supported ACP clients And Copilot isn't supported for now because, well, there is no ACP support

In Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

willm·Dec 23, 2025

I'm sure you recognise some of these? https://github.com/batrachianai/toad/blob/main/src/toad/app....

In Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

willm·Dec 18, 2025Submission

Show HN: Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents

Hi HN, Up to the middle of 2025, I was the CEO/CTO of a startup called Textualize. Somehow I had managed to land seed funding for my Python libraries for fancy terminal output. We wrapped up after three years because the funding ran dry. I honestly thought I was sick of coding at that point. But it turns out I was sick of the stress and working all hours. A few weeks rest was all I needed. It was about that time that coding agents exploded, and I could no longer ignore them. I wasn't impressed with the UI these tools offered. Having worked in the terminal for a few years, I knew you could get a better user experience. And so this project was born. I had planned to create some kind of layer between the agent's SDK and the front-end. Fortunately after I started building this, Zed Industries released Agent Client Protocol (https://agentclien

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tprotocol.com/). Which was precisely what I needed. I've just released the code (It was a private repo for a while). Toad (a play on Textual Code) can run a large number of AI agents, which a nicer terminal UI. Think of it as a "bring your own agent" coding CLI. Use whatever agent you want. I'm not trying to sell you tokens. Ask me anything. I'll be hanging around for a while, if this post takes off.

14 points · Open discussion