SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs for VS Code

io.github.dwgx/smartcli

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

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install SmartCLI — drive terminal TUIs in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "smartcli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "smartcli-toolkit"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Requires agent mode. MCP: Open User Configuration puts the same block in every workspace. VS Code docs