tui-design

tui-design is a plugin for Claude Code from gfargo/tui-design-skill. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 135 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

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

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit 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.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gfargo/tui-design-skill
/plugin install tui-design
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 135 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 4d 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 · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "tui-design",
  "version": "1.8.1",
  "description": "Design, build, refactor, or review terminal interfaces — full-screen TUIs, interactive prompts, and command-line tools — with Bubble Tea, Ratatui, Textual, and Ink, plus universal patterns for layout, color, keybindings, and discoverability.",
  "author": {
    "name": "gfargo",
    "url": "https://github.com/gfargo"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill",
  "repository": "https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "tui",
    "terminal",
    "cli",
    "bubble-tea",
    "ratatui",
    "textual",
    "ink",
    "design",
    "ux"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 135 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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.

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  6. 1mo 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 (40 stars, last pushed 5d 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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