Chat Interface

CloudCLI UI gives you two ways to interact with your agent: a responsive chat interface optimised for mobile and desktop, and a direct shell terminal for power users who prefer the raw CLI.

Chat Mode

The chat interface streams responses in real time from your selected agent (Claude Code, Cursor CLI, Codex, or Gemini CLI) over a WebSocket connection.

Key capabilities:

• Resume sessions — pick up any previous conversation from where you left off
• Start new sessions — create a session in any project directory
• Full message history — all conversations are saved with timestamps
• File mentions — reference files directly in your message and they are highlighted
• Code blocks — syntax-highlighted responses with copy support
• Thinking mode — enable extended thinking for Claude models
• Tool approval — grant or deny tool use requests inline in the chat

Shell Mode

Click the shell icon in the chat toolbar to switch to a full terminal connected to your agent's CLI. This gives you the same experience as running claude in your terminal, with full keyboard support.

Shell mode is useful when you need to:

• Pass flags to the CLI directly
• Run commands that the chat interface doesn't expose
• Monitor raw output from long-running agent tasks