The terminal became the main interface for AI-assisted work, and the tooling around it followed. These projects range from full TUI applications to single-purpose utilities small enough to read in an evening.
The terminal came back because agents live there. A tool that speaks plain text and exits with a status code is trivially composable with a model, which is more than can be said for most graphical software — and it made the CLI the most productive place to put new functionality.
This is also the friendliest category for a first project. The scope is naturally small, the interface is text, and the largest entries here are readable end to end — which is the fastest way to understand how a working tool is actually structured.
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Updated: 2026-08-17