band-terminal

band-terminal is a skill for Claude Code from band-app/band. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing terminal sessions inside a Band workspace. A session is a running shell process with its own terminal output history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, send input to, read output from, attach to, or stop Band terminal sessions.
Why use it?
It lets you control remote or separate terminal sessions without manually switching between them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create, list, send input to, read output from, attach to, or stop Band terminal sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/band-app/band/band-terminal
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add band-app/band --skill band-terminal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/band-app/band

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,298 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 $0.00088 $0.01298
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00519
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured 25d ago against content hash 3d20db846875, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

band-terminal 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 25d 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.

apps/cli/skills/band-terminal/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Band Terminal Sessions

Terminal sessions are PTY processes attached to a Band worktree. Each terminal has its own scrollback buffer and shell process.

This skill is focused on terminal management only. For broader operations see the sibling skills:

  • band — worktrees, repos, cronjobs, tunnel, settings.
  • band-chat — agent chat panes inside a worktree.
  • band-browser — browser tabs inside a worktree.

Prerequisites

The Band server must be running (started by the Band dashboard app). Connects to http://localhost:3456 by default. See the band skill for general setup and the worktree lifecycle.

JSON Output

All commands support --output json (or BAND_OUTPUT=json env var) for structured output.

  • Success: JSON object to stdout, exit code 0
  • Error: {"error": "message"} to stderr, exit code 1

Commands

List terminal sessions for a worktree

band terminals list [worktree_id]

Text output: TERMINAL ID\tTITLE\tPID\tSCROLLBACK (tab-separated table). JSON output: {"terminals": [{"terminalId": "...", "worktreeId": "...", "pid": N, "scrollbackLength": N, "title": "..."}]}

Create a new terminal session in a worktree

band terminals create [worktree_id] [--command <string>] [--cwd <string>]

Creates a new terminal session with its own PTY process. Returns the terminal ID. JSON output: {"terminalId": "...", "worktreeId": "...", "pid": N}

Send input to a terminal session

band terminals send [terminal_id] --data <string>

Writes text to the terminal's PTY stdin. Use \n to send a newline (execute command). Example: band terminals send --data "ls -la\n"

Get terminal output (scrollback buffer)

band terminals output [terminal_id] [--lines <integer>] [--follow]

Without --follow: fetches the current scrollback buffer (up to 100KB). With --follow: streams live terminal output via SSE. Press Ctrl+C to stop.

Kill a terminal session

band terminals kill [terminal_id]

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

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. 25d ago Changed · +1 tokens per session 3d20db846875
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +15 tokens per session 1d9f4ac88d16
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 699e809e455b

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band-terminal is a skill published in the GitHub repository band-app/band (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,298 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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