terminal-commands

terminal-commands is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alex-alecu/garden-desk. It costs 0 tokens per session (247 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using terminal commands to inspect folders, find files, search text, and run small command-line checks. A terminal is a text-based way to work with a computer’s files and programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports file discovery, source inspection, text searches, simple pipelines, and checking command output or exit codes.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose suitable commands and verify that commands produced the expected result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It supports file discovery, source inspection, text searches, simple pipelines, and checking command output or exit codes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alex-alecu/garden-desk/terminal-commands
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alex-alecu/garden-desk --skill terminal-commands
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alex-alecu/garden-desk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 247 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2de802fe320b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terminal-commands 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 12d 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.

prompts/skills/terminal-commands/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

When To Use

Use bash for a direct, one-step command: moving or renaming a file, checking an exit code, running an installed program. Prefer Python or Node for parsing, control flow, or anything with more than one step of logic.

Find The Files

list already returns the recursive tree under a guest path; use it instead of a shell listing.

Recipe

find /source -iname "*.csv"

Use exact paths you have already seen; an empty result means no match.

Verify

Check the exit code and the actual output text before you treat a command as successful.

Gotchas

  • grep and shell text search do not reach inside XLSX, DOCX, or PDF; they are compressed containers. Read them with a Python program instead.
  • /source holds the selected folder; /workspace holds your generated work.
  • For output too long to show inline, the tool result names the saved file's path; read that with read or grep.
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. 12d ago First seen · 31 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2de802fe320b

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terminal-commands is a skill published in the GitHub repository alex-alecu/garden-desk (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 247 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.