Burn Your Flags: Interactive CLIs for Agents — Mark Lummus & Navinkumar Patil, PayPal

Why watch

This workshop from PayPal engineers demonstrates how to build interactive CLIs that AI agents can successfully navigate, moving beyond the limitations of command flags. It presents three architectural approaches—tmux sessions, IPC side channels, and context injection—using a coffee ordering CLI as a hands-on example. The content is ideal for developers building agent tooling who want their agents to handle interactive prompts reliably.