hty
hty.shPuppeteer for the terminal. Let AI agents drive any interactive CLI.
AI Toolsai-agentscliterminalptydev-toolsautomationzig
About
hty is a tool that enables AI agents to interact with interactive terminal programs (TUIs and CLIs) by wrapping them in persistent PTY sessions. Agents can read the rendered terminal screen and send keystrokes, allowing them to operate editors, REPLs, auth flows, and scaffolding wizards. It ships as a single binary with zero dependencies, built on Ghostty's VT engine in Zig.
Problem
AI agents struggle to interact with interactive CLI programs that require reading terminal output and sending keystrokes in real time.
For
AI agent developers and engineers building autonomous coding or DevOps agents
How it works
hty wraps any interactive program in a persistent PTY session, exposing commands for agents to snapshot the rendered terminal screen, send keys, and wait for specific output conditions.
Business model
open-source
Status
launched
Company
LatentEvals