terminalAgent CLAUDE.md

terminalAgent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from 21pounder/terminalAgent. It costs 1,616 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for Terminal Coding Agent, a command-line program that coordinates coding assistants and specialized agents. They explain its commands, file references, skills, routing, shared context, and execution modes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing or running the CLI, adding or invoking skills, attaching files, routing work to Reader, Coder, Reviewer, or Coordinator agents, and working with its different execution modes.
Why use it?
They clarify how the multi-agent tool is started and how its parts communicate. This prevents changes that conflict with its requirement to run Claude Code as a separate process.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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npx agentmods add instructions/21pounder/terminalagent/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/21pounder/terminalAgent

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Security

Grade A, and why

terminalAgent CLAUDE.md 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 5d ago.

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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.md · 155 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Terminal Coding Agent (v5.0) is a CLI-based multi-agent coding assistant powered by the Claude Agent SDK. It wraps the SDK's query() function with a custom terminal UI featuring:

  • / command menu for invoking Skills
  • @ file browser for attaching files to context
  • Smart routing to specialized agents (Reader, Coder, Reviewer, Coordinator)
  • Inter-agent communication via message bus and shared context
  • Multiple execution modes: single, parallel, react, coordinator

Important: The agent spawns Claude Code as a subprocess and cannot run inside Claude Code itself.

Commands

# From repo root
npm run install:all    # Install all dependencies (into deepresearch/)
npm run dev            # Development (tsx src/index.ts)
npm run build          # TypeScript compilation
npm start              # Run compiled output

# From deepresearch/ directory
npm run test:ui        # Test UI components

# Global CLI (after npm link in deepresearch/)
agent                  # Interactive mode
agent "your question"  # Single query
agent /commit          # Invoke a skill directly

Architecture

deepresearch/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts                  # Main entry, input loop, runQuery/runCoordinator
│   ├── agents/                   # Agent classes
│   │   ├── base.ts               # BaseAgent abstract class (SDK integration)
│   │   ├── types.ts              # SubagentType, AgentConfig, AgentResult
│   │   ├── coordinator.ts        # Multi-agent dispatch, [DISPATCH:agent] parsing
│   │   ├── reader.ts             # Code reading and analysis
│   │   ├── coder.ts              # Code writing and modification
│   │   └── reviewer.ts           # Code review and quality checks
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── router.ts             # Router class - keyword matching, skill→agent mapping
│   │   ├── session.ts            # Session management
│   │   └── permissions.ts        # Permission mode handling
│   ├── runtime/
│   │   ├── bus.ts                # MessageBus - inter-agent pub/sub communication
│   │   ├── shared.ts             # SharedContext - cross-agent state
│   │   ├── pool.ts               # AgentPool - task queue and parallel execution
│   │   ├── orchestrator.ts       # Orchestrator - execution mode coordination
│   │   └── react.ts              # ReAct executor for multi-step reasoning
│   ├── config/
│   │   ├── agents.ts             # AGENT_CONFIGS, AGENT_KEYWORDS, SKILL_AGENT_MAP
│   │   ├── constants.ts          # VERSION, MAX_SUBAGENT_DEPTH, DEFAULT_MODEL
│   │   └── tools.ts              # MCP_SERVERS configuration
│   ├── ui/
│   │   ├── smart-input.ts        # SmartInput - main input with "/" and "@" triggers
│   │   ├── commands.ts           # CommandPicker - arrow-key navigable "/" menu
│   │   ├── file-browser.ts       # FileBrowser - "@" file selection
│   │   └── theme.ts              # ANSI colors, icons, box drawing
│   ├── tools/
│   │   ├── message.ts            # MessageTool - agent messaging wrapper
│   │   ├── context.ts            # ContextTool - shared context wrapper
│   │   └── dispatch.ts           # Dispatch utilities
│   └── utils/
│       ├── prompt-loader.ts      # Loads agent prompts from .md files
│       ├── transcript.ts         # Session logging (text + JSON)
│       └── message-handler.ts    # SDK message processing
├── prompts/                      # Agent-specific system prompts (.md)
├── .claude/skills/               # Global Skills
├── bin/agent.cjs                 # Global CLI entry (CommonJS wrapper)
└── dist/                         # Build output

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Changes

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terminalAgent CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository 21pounder/terminalAgent (120 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,616 tokens to every session, about $0.0081 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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