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Very excited to see this come out - though coding agents are impressive their UIs are a bit of a mixed bag.

Textual offers incredibly impressive terminal experiences so I'm very much looking forward to this.

I wonder how much agentic magic it'll be able to include though - Claude Code often seems like a lot of its intelligence comes from the scaffolding, not just the LLM. I'm excited to see!

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Hope you like it. It is still Claude Code doing the work. Toad talks to the agent, and is the agent that works with the LLM. So the results should be identical to the native CLI.

I have written a coding agent which I plan to open up soon. By far the biggest time sink has been in the TUI - I've just implemented ACP and I really hope that I can use toad as a front end.

It should be as easy as running: toad acp “command”

Does it work with local models? ollama? LM Studio?

you still need an agent, but yes.

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