InfoQ: Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Building on Textual & Rich

Will McGugan, creator of the Rich and Textual Python libraries, reflects on why he built each framework and the UX lessons he’s picked up along the way—especially around making terminal apps feel intuitive and visually engaging.

Enter Toad: the next-gen CLI for agentic LLMs

His new project, Toad, aims to bring those design vibes to command-line interfaces for agentic language models, offering a slicker, more interactive way to harness LLM power without ever leaving the terminal.

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