tui-design

Guidance for designing terminal user interfaces (TUIs), which are interactive screens that run inside a command-line window. It covers Bubble Tea, Ratatui, Textual, Ink, and general layout, color, keyboard controls, and discoverability patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or improving interactive terminal tools with Bubble Tea, Ratatui, Textual, or Ink. It also helps plan their layouts, colors, keybindings, and user guidance.
Why use it?
It helps make command-line applications easier to understand and navigate. It reduces guesswork about arranging information and choosing keyboard interactions.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gfargo/tui-design-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/gfargo/tui-design-skill/tui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

tui-design 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 2d 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.

plugins/tui-design/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 23 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "tui-design",
  "version": "1.7.0",
  "description": "Design and build clean, professional, minimal terminal UI (TUI) applications and command-line tools — covers Bubble Tea, Ratatui, Textual, Ink, plus universal patterns for layout, color, keybindings, and discoverability.",
  "author": {
    "name": "gfargo",
    "url": "https://github.com/gfargo"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "tui",
    "terminal",
    "cli",
    "bubble-tea",
    "ratatui",
    "textual",
    "ink",
    "design",
    "ux"
  ]
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 23 lines scan A 72844737a251

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tui-design is a plugin published in the GitHub repository gfargo/tui-design-skill (24 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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