Term-CLI – interactive terminals for AI agents (for SSH/TUI/REPL flows)
Agents can run non-interactive commands, but they often fail once a workflow needs a real terminal (SSH sessions, installers, debuggers, REPLs, TUIs). I built term-cli so an agent can drive an interactive terminal session (keystrokes in, output out, wait for prompts). And it comes with agent skill for easy integration. It supports in-band file transfer: the agent can move files through the terminal stream itself (same channel as the interactive session), which is useful when the agent doesn’t have scp/sftp, shared volumes, or direct filesystem access across boundaries. Recent example:…
Term-CLI – interactive terminals for AI agents (for SSH/TUI/REPL flows) launched on March 4, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,237 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Interactive terminals for AI agents, built for what you can't --yes away. SSH+MFA, GRUB/U-Boot, debconf installers, SOL/serial consoles, fsck, cryptsetup, pdb/gdb, apt, certbot, pwsh and even Vim in tmux-backed sessions. Agent-driven, human-assisted for secrets/MFA. Single-file Python. Agent Skill. CI with 700+ tests. BSD License. - EliasOenal/term-cli
In the maker’s words, at launch
Agents can run non-interactive commands, but they often fail once a workflow needs a real terminal (SSH sessions, installers, debuggers, REPLs, TUIs). I built term-cli so an agent can drive an interactive terminal session (keystrokes in, output out, wait for prompts). And it comes with agent skill for easy…
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