using-termcanvas

using-termcanvas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from blueberrycongee/termcanvas. It costs 29 tokens per session (751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for work in a TermCanvas-managed code repository. It helps choose between direct work, focused review or debugging skills, and the Hydra workflow for isolated or staged tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing how to handle code changes, bug investigations, security audits, code reviews, quality checks, and tasks that need isolated worktrees or staged execution.
Why use it?
It prevents using a heavier workflow than the task needs and directs specialized requests to the right process. It also helps keep complex work controlled and repeatable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the skills plugin — 7 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/blueberrycongee/termcanvas/using-termcanvas
Any agent
npx skills add blueberrycongee/termcanvas --skill using-termcanvas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/blueberrycongee/termcanvas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 751 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.00751
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 3d ago against content hash e6db081db7e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-termcanvas 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 3d 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/skills/using-termcanvas/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using TermCanvas

Route first. Choose the lightest path that preserves correctness.

Routing

  • If the user wants to challenge, stress-test, or critically review an idea, argument, or proposal, use challenge.
  • If the user asks to investigate a bug, debug, or diagnose an issue, use investigate.
  • If the user asks for a security review or audit, use security-audit.
  • If the user asks for a code review or diff review, use code-review.
  • If the user asks to test a site, QA a page, or verify a deploy, use qa.
  • If the task is simple, local, high-certainty, or faster in the current agent, do it directly. Do not invoke Hydra by default.
  • If the task needs an isolated worktree, file evidence, retry/status control, or a staged workflow, use hydra.
  • Before using Hydra in a repo, ensure the project has current Hydra instructions via hydra init-repo or the TermCanvas Hydra enable action.

Hydra workflow patterns

Lead-driven, decision-point oriented. The Lead reads the codebase, picks the strategy, and dispatches workers for the steps that need a fresh agent process. Roles available: lead (the decider — not itself dispatched), dev (writes code AND its tests), reviewer (independent cross-model check). No separate researcher — the Lead does its own research. No separate tester — dev owns its own test surface.

  • hydra init --intent "..." --repo . then dispatch dev -> reviewer for ambiguous, risky, or PRD-driven work
    • call hydra watch after each dispatch to wait for the decision point
  • hydra spawn --task "..." --repo . for a single isolated worker
    • use when the task split is already known and you do not need the full Lead-driven loop

Hydra worker primitive

  • hydra spawn --task "..." --repo .
    • one direct isolated worker terminal
    • use when the task split is already known and you do not need a full workflow

Guardrails

  • Do not describe Hydra workflows as automatic parallelism unless multiple spawned workers are actually involved.
  • When launching Claude/Codex tasks via TermCanvas CLI, use termcanvas terminal create --prompt "..." rather than termcanvas terminal input.
  • After hydra dispatch, immediately start hydra watch — do not ask whether to watch.
  • Use hydra watch / hydra status / hydra ledger / hydra list --workflows for workflows created by hydra init.
  • Use hydra list and hydra cleanup <agentId> for direct workers created by hydra spawn.
  • Prefer structured Hydra state and files over terminal prose.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 3d ago First seen · 67 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e6db081db7e6

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using-termcanvas is a skill published in the GitHub repository blueberrycongee/termcanvas (392 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 751 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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