SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs for Claude Desktop

io.github.dwgx/smartcli

Let agents drive vim, htop, lazygit: send keys, wait on screen state, read the rendered cell grid.

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartcli": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "smartcli-toolkit"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs