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+[package]
+name = "tui-generator-cli"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+description = "A Rust CLI tool that generates beautiful, interactive terminal user interfaces for any command-line tool"
+authors = ["TUI Generator Contributors"]
+
+[dependencies]
+ratatui = "0.30"
+crossterm = "0.29"
+clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive"] }
+anyhow = "1.0"
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+toml = "0.8"
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
+unicode-width = "0.1"
+regex = "1.10"
+chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["std"] }
+
+[dev-dependencies]
+tempfile = "3"
+
+[profile.release]
+opt-level = 2
+lto = true