iterm-workspace

iterm-workspace is a skill for Codex from antonio-mello-ai/iterm-ai-agents-bundle. It costs 59 tokens per session (575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules and commands for controlling the correct iTerm tab and pane, where iTerm is a macOS terminal application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when splitting panes, routing commands, preserving focus, or identifying the tab and pane that started the task.
Why use it?
It prevents terminal automation from sending commands to the wrong visible pane or disrupting another session.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when splitting panes, routing commands, preserving focus, or identifying the tab and pane that started the task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/antonio-mello-ai/iterm-ai-agents-bundle/iterm-workspace
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add antonio-mello-ai/iterm-ai-agents-bundle --skill iterm-workspace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antonio-mello-ai/iterm-ai-agents-bundle

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 575 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 $0.00059 $0.00575
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9a67025723e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iterm-workspace 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 11d 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.

skills/iterm-workspace/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

iTerm Workspace

Use this skill to keep iTerm automation scoped to the pane and tab that invoked the agent. iTerm does not provide a cmux-style workspace API, so the practical workspace unit is the current iTerm tab.

Default Rule

Anchor on the caller pane first. If the agent process has no TTY, use the current iTerm session as a fallback and say so before making visible changes.

iterm-control identify
iterm-control list

identify reports:

  • caller_tty: local terminal TTY if available.
  • resolved_caller.resolution: caller-tty, caller-fallback-current, or another explicit resolution.
  • current: iTerm's current session.

Non-Disruptive Layout

Build layout additively from the caller/current pane. Prefer commands that create the pane already running the intended command:

iterm-control split --target caller --direction right --command "zsh -lc 'cd /repo && exec codex'"
iterm-control grid --target caller --rows 2 --cols 2 --command "zsh -lc 'cd /repo && exec codex'"

Avoid focus-changing AppleScript unless the user explicitly asks to move focus. When a target is ambiguous, stop and ask for the pane/session id or use a badge or screenshot to verify.

Safe Pane Routing

Use this order for target selection:

  1. session:<id> from a fresh list or identify.
  2. tty:<path> from a fresh list or identify.
  3. caller when identify resolved by caller-tty.
  4. current only when the task is explicitly about the currently focused iTerm pane.

Do not send commands to another pane just because it is visually near the caller. iTerm pane geometry is not exposed reliably through AppleScript.

Rules

  • Scope actions to the current iTerm tab unless the user asked for another window or tab.
  • Treat caller-fallback-current as focus-based and user-visible.
  • Prefer badges and screenshots for confirmation instead of changing focus.
  • Do not close sessions, tabs, or windows from this skill unless the user explicitly asks.
  • Do not assume a command launched successfully; validate with list, screenshot, or visible output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 65 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 9a67025723e2

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iterm-workspace is a skill published in the GitHub repository antonio-mello-ai/iterm-ai-agents-bundle (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 575 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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