Why Agents Need a CLIAugust 16, 2026 · 6 min readLi JinDora SSR developerI wanted external Agents such as Codex and OpenCode to continue developing a Dora game while I stepped away from the computer. They could read and edit code. Then the workflow stopped at the browser door. A person still had to open the Web IDE, click Run, copy the output, and explain what happened. An Agent that can write code but cannot start the project or read the result has not really taken over a development task.