A unified interface for AI in your terminal.

Run coding agents seamlessly under a single beautiful terminal UI, thanks to the ACP protocol.

Toad runs on Linux and macOS. Native Windows support is lacking, but Toad will run quite well with WSL.

Toad is a terminal application. Any terminal will work, although if you are using the default terminal on macOS you will get a much reduced experience. I recommend Ghostty which is fully featured and has amazing performance.

The easiest way to install Toad is by pasting the following in to your terminal:

curl -fsSL batrachian.ai/install | sh

You should now have toad installed.

If that doesn't work for any reason, then you can install with the following steps:

First install UV:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Then use UV to install toad:

uv tool install -U batrachian-toad --python 3.14

Launch Toad with the following:

toad

You should see something like this:

From this screen you will be able to find, install, and launch a coding agent. If you already have an agent installed, you can skip the install step. To launch an agent, select it and press space.

The footer will always display the most significant keys for the current context. To see all the keys, summon the command palette with ctrl+p and search for "keys".

When running Toad, the current working directory is assumed to be your project directory. To use another project directory, add the path to the command. For example:

toad ~/projects/my-awesome-app

If you want to skip the initial agent screen, add the -a switch with the name of your chosen agent. For example:

toad -a open-hands

To see all subcommands and switches, add the --help switch:

toad --help

You can run Toad as a web application.

Run the following, and click the link in the terminal:

toad serve

Toad was built by Will McGugan and is currently under active development.

To discuss Toad, see the Discussions tab, or join the #toad channel on the Textualize discord server.

Some planned features:

• UI for MCP servers
• Expose model selection (waiting on ACP update)
• Sessions
• Multiple agents

This project is trialling a non-traditional approach to issues. Before an issue is created, there must be a post in Dicussions, approved by a Toad dev (Currently @willmcgugan).

By allowing the discussions to happen in the Discussion tabs, issues can be reserved for actionable tasks with a clear description and goal.