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agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF Building a terminal-native AI coding agent that needs a clean separation between CLI invocation and interactive session.

How others solved it

THEN Adopt a dispatcher → TUI → engine → tools pattern: the CLI binary (dispatcher) parses subcommands and delegates to a companion TUI binary for interactive sessions. The TUI runs a ratatui-based interface that communicates with an async engine executing the agent loop, which dispatches tool calls through a typed registry (shell, file ops, git, web, sub-site_1, MCP). This keeps the CLI layer thin and the interactive logic decoupled.

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