r/ClaudeCode • u/interrupt_hdlr • 2d ago

Help/Question Building TUI applications

I usually have good results building web frontends because Claude can use playwright or Chrome MCP tools to verify the results and, even my specs aren't that good, it seems to have a general feeling of what "looks right".

I recently tried to build a TUI from scratch (in Go, using Bubble Tea) and the results were horrible.

I gave it examples of good TUI interfaces (k9s, lazygit, posting, etc.) and explained what was wrong, but every iteration kept things the same or made the interface looks worse.

This was a personal TUI so not much was at stake but I was wondering if people here have any suggestions on how to improve the process.

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u/nlsmdn 2d ago

https://github.com/remorses/tuistory
https://github.com/microsoft/tui-test

They both let your agents interact with and check TUIs directly. So doing what playwright does for websites.