TUI Guide

The Axio Terminal User Interface (TUI) built with Textual.

Installation

uv tool install "axio-tui[all]"

Or pick extras: anthropic, openai, codex, local, mcp, guards

Launch

axio

Interface

Key Bindings

Key	Action
Ctrl+C	Quit
Ctrl+L	Clear log
Ctrl+P	Command palette
Escape	Stop agent
F12	Toggle Dev Console
Alt+Up	Previous message
Alt+Down	Next message

Command Palette

Press Ctrl+P to access:

• Search Model

• Switch LLM

• Clear chat log

• Compact Conversation

• Download messages

• Configure transports (OpenAI, Anthropic, Codex, OpenRouter, Nebius)

• Configure Docker Sandbox

• Fork Conversation

• New Session

• Reset conversation

• Configure MCP Servers

• Manage Plugins

• Theme

• Screenshot

• Quit

Settings

Press system shortcut to configure:

• Chat model

• Compaction model

• Sub-agent model

• Guard model

• Vision model

• Transport API keys

Plugins

Auto-discovers via entry points:

• axio.transport - LLM backends

• axio.tools - Tools

• axio.tools.settings - Tools with config UI

• axio.guards - Permission guards

Serve over HTTP

textual-serve axio_tui.__main__:app