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part of it is the obvious stuff. clack makes cli prompts feel good. frameworks and scaffolding tools adopted it. the community kept it healthy. but there’s a bigger shift underneath.

software is becoming agentic, and agentic software lives in the terminal. every ai coding agent, every scaffolding flow, every automated workflow runs through cli tooling.

the terminal stopped being a niche developer surface and became the primary interface where humans and agents meet. libraries like clack are quietly load-bearing for that entire layer.