hty
Puppeteer for the terminal. Let AI agents drive any interactive CLI.
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.
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.
AI agent developers and engineers building autonomous coding or DevOps agents
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- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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