What Chrome DevTools MCP is for the browser, tui-mcp is for the terminal.
Terminal UI DevTools is an MCP project maintained in the nvms/tui-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “What Chrome DevTools MCP is for the browser, tui-mcp is for the terminal”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
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| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| launch | Spawn a TUI app in a managed pty |
| kill | Terminate a session |
| list_sessions | List sessions, including recently exited ones |
| status | Get one session's state and exit code |
| resize | Resize the terminal |
| screenshot | Capture terminal as PNG |
| snapshot | Capture terminal as plain text |
| scrollback | Read the buffer including scrolled-off history |
| read_region | Read a rectangular area of the buffer |
| cursor | Get cursor position |
| send_keys | Send a keystroke or combo (Enter, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Up, q) |
| send_text | Type a string of characters |
| send_mouse | Send mouse events |
| wait_for_text | Wait for a regex pattern to appear |
| wait_for_idle | Wait until the terminal stops changing |
| wait_for_exit | Wait for the process to exit and get its exit code |
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