Show HN: Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)
3.30T2 sourceHacker News · Show HN (50+ points)
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Published by Hacker News · Show HN (50+ points) (T2 source). The original is at https://github.com/klad-app/klad.
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SummaryKlad is a source-available Rust paint application controlled through a CLI, letting coding agents create drawings with brushes, vectors, text, animation, layers, and effects while users can later edit individual strokes and layers. It runs on macOS and Linux, with Windows builds in CI.
Why it mattersUseful as a concrete reference implementation for exposing a creative desktop tool to an agent without surrendering manual control of the resulting document.
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