Coding agents gain a paint app

Klad is a paint and animation app built for people and coding agents to work on the same drawing. A person paints in the editor, while an agent uses Klad’s command line. Their strokes appear in the same drawing, and either can change work already on the canvas. Klad says it has no image model: the agent decides what to paint. It records editable strokes, shapes and fills, so a person can adjust a specific mark rather than ask for a whole new image. The project page describes it as an early public release that users build themselves.

That could matter to a business using agents for visual work, especially when the output needs hands-on edits instead of being accepted as a finished image. Klad includes layers and animation tools, and says drawings are stored as plain files on the user’s computer. Its source-available licence allows personal use and use inside a company with less than 500,000 euros in annual revenue. It currently runs on macOS, while the Linux editor starts with a mouse, and the project says nobody has drawn with it on Windows yet.

The practical question is whether an agent can make useful artwork when a person can inspect and revise each part. Klad says the result depends on the agent and how much guidance it gets. For teams keeping track of where tools like this fit in their workflow, this is the kind of thing we build into an AI command centre.