I recently read someone [1] make the case for a sweet spot blending the best of CLI agents (fast, keyboard-driven, in a terminal) and desktop agents (rich UI: inline images, diffs).

This resonated with me as fairly on point to what agent-shell has been going for, except from inside Emacs, which arguably gets you plenty of goodies at once: it's fast and text/keyboard-driven like a terminal, also renders inline images, markdown and tables like a desktop app, but with first class integration into your text editor (no context switch). Also, since it's all elisp, you can bend any of it to your own workflow.

This release pulls more of that desktop-like experience with richer TAB navigation, actionable items (resizable images) and a more chat-like experience.

Also worth highlighting, agent-shell is vendor-neutral: it speaks ACP, so you can drive Claude, Codex, Gemini... without relearning your tools.

Repo: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell (also on MELPA). Full 0.73 notes: https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-73-updates. Feedback welcome.

[1] Sorry, I read this somewhere recently but couldn't find it again.