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App

Agent-composed TV canvas (tmux-style client/server generative UI)

A TV screen that starts blank: you ask for something and an AI assistant finds it in your own media and draws it on screen.

built Oct 2026 Running a team of AI agents

how it works

Server owns a never-ending session (like tmux) that TV, phone and browser clients attach to; the model emits a validated layout spec from a fixed native component set instead of writing UI code.

App: A complete application.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

agentsandroid-tvclient-servergenerative-uilayout-spec

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