uac-tui 0.1.0

Full-screen terminal chat for Claude Code and Codex over one shared memory layer.

uac-chat — terminal chat for Claude Code and Codex

A full-screen terminal front end for talking to both agents over your shared uac memory and skills — switch between Claude and Codex without leaving the window.

This is a separate app from the VS Code extension, on purpose: pick whichever front end you like. The two share only the uac core (memory, skills, hooks) — never each other's code, and never a second copy of your memory store.

No API key. Every model call happens inside the official CLI under your own subscription login.

Install

uv tool install --editable ./cli --with-editable .

(The --with-editable . makes the local uac core resolvable, since it isn't on PyPI.) Then, in a project you've run uac init in:

uac-chat                 # start with Claude Code
uac-chat --agent codex   # start with Codex

Keys

Key
Enter	send
Ctrl+T	switch agent (Claude ⇄ Codex)
Ctrl+G	model
Ctrl+E	effort
Ctrl+P	mode (permissions / sandbox)
Ctrl+B	toggle the shared-memory panel
Ctrl+C	stop the running turn — or quit when idle
/	skills and slash commands (your project skills work on both agents)
@	mention a file by path

The controls bar shows the current agent, model, effort and mode. A setting you change lights up; the effort dots follow the model you pick (Codex's scales differ per model — ultra is Terra-only).

How it works

Each turn is forwarded to claude -p … / codex exec … as a subprocess; the streamed events are rendered as they arrive. The agent's working (reads, searches, commands, edits) collects into a collapsible group that folds away once the answer lands, so the reply stands on its own.

Project skills reach both agents: Claude has them natively; for Codex, /skill is rewritten into a skill_load call over MCP.

Develop

cd cli
pytest            # driver + headless app tests (no real agent, no quota)

The driver is this app's own copy — a deliberate sibling of the extension's driver.ts. A change to how an agent is driven or parsed belongs in both.