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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Post by ra »

willm wrote: post #23
mark_undoio wrote: post #22

Very excited to see this come out - though coding agents are impressive their UIs are a bit of a mixed bag. Textual offers incredibly impressive terminal experiences so I'm very much looking forward to this. I wonder how much agentic magic it'll be able to include though - Claude Code often seems like a lot of its intelligence comes from the scaffolding, not just the LLM. I'm excited to see!

Hope you like it. It is still Claude Code doing the work. Toad talks to the agent, and is the agent that works with the LLM. So the results should be identical to the native CLI.

I have written a coding agent which I plan to open up soon. By far the biggest time sink has been in the TUI - I've just implemented ACP and I really hope that I can use toad as a front end.

Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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_ache_ wrote: post #30
willm wrote: post #4

Hi. Will McGugan here. I built Toad. Ask me anything.

I'm using ollama with local LLM for completion (tabby-ml) and Open WebUI for chat. What will be the goto local ACP server working with ollama ? Ideally working with toad to experiment with it.

You may be confusing Agent Communication Protocol with Agent Client Protocol. Yeah, 2 ACP protocols. I had no hand in the naming.

If an agent can be configured to use Ollama, then you could use it from a Toad. It might be possible right now.

Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Post by willm »

ra wrote: post #31
willm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hope you like it. It is still Claude Code doing the work. Toad talks to the agent, and is the agent that works with the LLM. So the results should be identical to the native CLI.

I have written a coding agent which I plan to open up soon. By far the biggest time sink has been in the TUI - I've just implemented ACP and I really hope that I can use toad as a front end.

It should be as easy as running: toad acp “command”

Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Post by taude »

SoftTalker wrote: post #34

The name Toad gave me a flashback to Tool for Oracle Application Development, an IDE and debugger for SQL and pl/sql back in the 1990s.

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.

Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Post by evalstate »

_ache_ wrote: post #30
willm wrote: post #4

Hi. Will McGugan here. I built Toad. Ask me anything.

I'm using ollama with local LLM for completion (tabby-ml) and Open WebUI for chat. What will be the goto local ACP server working with ollama ? Ideally working with toad to experiment with it.

fast-agent has ACP support and works well with ollama. Once installed you can just use `toad acp "fast-agent-acp --model generic."`.

Re: Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

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Post by shagie »

jefflinwood wrote: post #38
SoftTalker wrote: post #34

The name Toad gave me a flashback to Tool for Oracle Application Development, an IDE and debugger for SQL and pl/sql back in the 1990s.

It's still around!

Very much still around... and one of those "this (the terminal tool the HN post is about) might have some trademark challenges" given that every license of TOAD (Tool for Oracle Development) is bundled with some AI and the likelihood of confusion and overlap is quite real. ... and Quest really likes putting that ® after every mention of it.
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