Acknowledgements

ProtoAgent was inspired by and built upon ideas from these excellent open-source coding agents:

• Codex - OpenAI's official CLI coding agent
• Gemini CLI - Google's terminal-based coding assistant
• OpenCode - An open, hackable coding agent
• Pi Mono - A minimal, extensible agent implementation
• Pi Worker - The WebSocket-based agent runtime for Cloudflare Workers that inspired ProtoAgent's core Live Demo

These projects demonstrated different approaches to the agentic loop, tool calling, and terminal UX that informed ProtoAgent's design.