Interactive (TUI)

You’re at a terminal, driving the agent yourself. core-agent (no flags, stdin is a TTY) lands in the Bubble Tea TUI. Conversation history is preserved across turns. Slash commands surface session controls.

In this section

• Quickstart — first 15 minutes: install, point at a provider, drop an AGENTS.md, add a skill, set permission posture, check it in.
• Workflows — worked examples: Go code-reviewer with MCP web search, read-only documentation writer.
• Slash reference — full slash command catalog + keybindings.

Common references

• Configuration — .agents/config.json schema
• Permissions — controlling what the agent can do
• Skills — reusable named procedures
• MCP servers — declarative third-party tool integration
• Context management — keeping long sessions alive
• Agent design — prescriptive patterns for prompts, skills, and tool choice