Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal – Will McGugan – Will McGugan's essays

I called it Textual Code originally, which became “Toad” (the same way as Hodor got his name). Although purely a UI prototype with mocked up API interactions, it was enough for me to confidently say this is how you build a terminal based AI coding agent. We can have a jank free interface that remains light-weight and snappy without giving up the interactions we have all committed to muscle memory.