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Will add Toad support ASAP, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be great together. https://github.com/AvitalTamir/vibecommander", "context": "", "use_case": "AI in the terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}, {"id": 741935696, "item_id": 46370981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370981", "by": "taude", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used that solidly into the mid-2000s!", "excerpt": "90s? I used that solidly into the mid-2000s! Worked across more than Oracle, if I remember correctly, was the DataGrip of it's time.", "context": "", "use_case": "SQL and PL/SQL IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ai coding harness", "agent-agnostic terminal front", "ai in the terminal", "unified ai agent terminal", "unified ai terminal interface", "sql and pl/sql ide"], "compared": [{"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "github-copilot", "name": "GitHub Copilot", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "amp", "name": "Amp", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354737", "title": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616562", "title": "Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760187", "title": "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710108", "title": "How are you automating your coding work?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592133", "title": "When OpenCode tries to build Go packages using a Chinese proxy", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714", "title": "Karpathy on Programming", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 3}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 796289682, "item_id": 49768105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768105", "by": "desipenguin", "date": "2026-09-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use oh-my-pi (and opencode, and toad)", "excerpt": "Genuine question: Does the Agent harness matter ? I mean why use Claude CLI ? (As I mentioned elsewhere) I use oh-my-pi (and opencode, and toad) but use (client paid) Opus 5 with these harnesses. All three of these understand AGENTS.md", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"}, {"id": 747462227, "item_id": 46716389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716389", "by": "rcarmo", "date": "2026-01-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "others Mistral Vibe or Toad", "excerpt": "Well, I built https://github.com/rcarmo/agentbox - which I run in a VM, with a dedicated container per project. Right now most of them are running Copilot CLI, others Mistral Vibe or Toad, and I have just built a small web front end based on https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm that lets me see a dashboard of all running tmux sessions inside the containers, click through, and prompt the agents every hour or so. ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How are you automating your coding work?"}, {"id": 745957809, "item_id": 46622363, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622363", "by": "maphew", "date": "2026-01-14", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "and also toad, ampcode, codex, kilocode", "excerpt": "my ulterior motive: I use some of Nori skills, and also toad, ampcode, codex, kilocode, and... I want to reduce my tool noise. ;-)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Nori CLI, a better interface for Claude Code (no flicker)"}, {"id": 745947552, "item_id": 46621722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621722", "by": "maphew", "date": "2026-01-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "also see BatrachianAI's Toad", "excerpt": "On the flicker free console as well as agent agnostic front, also see BatrachianAI's Toad (https://github.com/batrachianai/toad). 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Now, this is interesting for several reasons--the first is that even with tool whitelist", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "When OpenCode tries to build Go packages using a Chinese proxy"}, {"id": 742808469, "item_id": 46425529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425529", "by": "dnw", "date": "2025-12-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "compared to Opencode, Amp, and Toad I can feel the", "excerpt": "I have been using Copilot, Cursor, then CC for a little more than a year now. I have written code with teams using these tools and I am writing mostly for myself now. My observations have been the following: 1) These tools obviously improved significantly over the past 12 months. They can churn out code that makes sense in the context of the codebase, meaning there is more grounding to the codebase they are working o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karpathy on Programming"}, {"id": 742373905, "item_id": 46398369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398369", "by": "twotwotwo", "date": "2025-12-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "projects like https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/ that try to put a nice interface on top of everything", "excerpt": "I have played with it and it's so easy get started with that now I want a quick-project idea as an excuse to use it! I'm sure you've thought of this, but lots of people get 'free' (or really: zero incremental cost to them) use of some coding chat tool through a subscription or free allowance like what Google is offering. If you wanted to let those access your custom tools (browser!) and docs about the environment, a ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exe.dev/"}, {"id": 741953569, "item_id": 46372098, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372098", "by": "fatliverfreddy", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This looks fantastic!", "excerpt": "This looks fantastic! Check out vibecommander - it\u2019s a young tool in this space with a different take that wraps around CLI coding assistants with IDE-style file and git panels that compliment the experience by letting the human do the code review part of the task seamlessly. Will add Toad support ASAP, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be great together. https://github.com/AvitalTamir/vibecommander", "context": "", "use_case": "AI in the terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}, {"id": 741950048, "item_id": 46371878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371878", "by": "NSPG911", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's more like just a simple toml file.", "excerpt": "It's more like just a simple toml file. https://github.com/batrachianai/toad/tree/main/src%2Ftoad%2Fdata%2Fagents gets you the currently supported ACP clients And Copilot isn't supported for now because, well, there is no ACP support", "context": "", "use_case": "Unified AI agent terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}, {"id": 741948912, "item_id": 46371807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371807", "by": "anentropic", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Just installed it...", "excerpt": "Just installed it... How are new agents added? Do you have to write a dedicated plugin for each one? Or there's some kind of discovery mechanism? (I was looking for Copilot, but I guess that will depend on https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/222 ?)", "context": "", "use_case": "unified AI terminal interface", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}, {"id": 741935696, "item_id": 46370981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370981", "by": "taude", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used that solidly into the mid-2000s!", "excerpt": "90s? I used that solidly into the mid-2000s! Worked across more than Oracle, if I remember correctly, was the DataGrip of it's time.", "context": "", "use_case": "SQL and PL/SQL IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal"}, {"id": 739415185, "item_id": 46213449, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213449", "by": "rbren", "date": "2025-12-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month", "excerpt": "The OpenHands CLI has had some major improvements since v1: https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands MIT license and model agnostic I\u2019d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month: https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Agentic AI Foundation"}]}