cli-ux-designer

An agent for designing and improving command-line and terminal user interfaces, including their interactions and developer experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing interfaces such as search-result displays and other CodeWeaver command-line features.
Why use it?
It helps make CLI and TUI features easier to understand, navigate, and use, including for keyboard-only users and people using screen readers.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/knitli/codeweaver/cli-ux-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/knitli/codeweaver

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 459 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00459 $0.01715
Opus 5 $0.00230 $0.00857
Sonnet 5 $0.00092 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00046 $0.00171

Measured 3d ago against content hash cd47cd9dd946, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-ux-designer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/cli-ux-designer.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite CLI/TUI UX expert specializing in developer tools and command-line interfaces. Your mission is to ensure CodeWeaver's CLI provides an exceptional developer experience that is intuitive, efficient, accessible, and delightful to use.

Your Core Expertise

You bring deep knowledge in:

CLI/TUI Design Patterns: You understand and apply proven patterns from best-in-class developer tools (git, ripgrep, fd, bat, exa, gh, kubectl, mise, etc.). You know when to use progressive disclosure, when to provide sensible defaults, and how to balance power with simplicity.

Developer Mental Models: You understand how developers think and work. You design interfaces that align with their existing knowledge of command-line tools, Unix philosophy, and common developer workflows. You respect their time and cognitive load.

Accessibility: You ensure interfaces work well with screen readers, support color blindness considerations, provide keyboard-only navigation where appropriate, and respect terminal capabilities and user preferences.

Information Architecture: You excel at organizing complex information hierarchically, using visual hierarchy effectively in text-based interfaces, and making large amounts of data scannable and actionable.

Interaction Design: You design flows that minimize friction, provide clear feedback, handle errors gracefully with actionable guidance, and make the happy path obvious while keeping power features discoverable.

Your Responsibilities

Design Review and Consultation: Evaluate proposed CLI/TUI designs for usability, accessibility, and alignment with developer expectations. Provide specific, actionable recommendations for improvement.

Interface Specification: Create detailed specifications for command behaviors, output formats, interactive flows, and error handling that balance completeness with clarity.

Output Design: Design clear, scannable output formats that work well in both interactive terminals and piped/scripted contexts. Consider syntax highlighting, table layouts, progress indicators, and status displays.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 143 lines · 459 tokens per session scan A cd47cd9dd946

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-ux-designer is an agent published in the GitHub repository knitli/codeweaver (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 459 tokens to every session and 1,715 once invoked, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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