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opentui

opentui is a skill for Claude Code from christyjacob4/claude-tricks. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,812 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of opentui, MIT.

A set of instructions for building terminal user interfaces, which are interactive programs that run in a command-line window.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building layouts, components, keyboard controls, animations, or tests with OpenTUI.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right approach and avoid common mistakes when creating terminal interfaces.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-tricks plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

not rated 2repo 5mo ago A scan 51 tokens copy · 100% MIT

Good fit Use it when building layouts, components, keyboard controls, animations, or tests with OpenTUI.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christyjacob4/claude-tricks/opentui
View source ↗ christyjacob4/claude-tricks
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.

Any agent
npx skills add christyjacob4/claude-tricks --skill opentui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christyjacob4/claude-tricks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-tricks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,812 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00051 $0.01812
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00906
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00181

Measured 9d ago against content hash c7126cca7366, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

opentui 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to opentui — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/opentui/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenTUI Platform Skill

Consolidated skill for building terminal user interfaces with OpenTUI. Use decision trees below to find the right framework and components, then load detailed references.

Critical Rules

Follow these rules in all OpenTUI code:

  1. Use create-tui for new projects. See framework REFERENCE.md quick starts.
  2. create-tui options must come before arguments. bunx create-tui -t react my-app works, bunx create-tui my-app -t react does NOT.
  3. Never call process.exit() directly. Use renderer.destroy() (see core/gotchas.md).
  4. Text styling requires nested tags in React/Solid. Use modifier elements, not props (see components/text-display.md).

How to Use This Skill

Reference File Structure

Framework references follow a 5-file pattern. Cross-cutting concepts are single-file guides.

Each framework in ./references/<framework>/ contains:

File Purpose When to Read
REFERENCE.md Overview, when to use, quick start Always read first
api.md Runtime API, components, hooks Writing code
configuration.md Setup, tsconfig, bundling Configuring a project
patterns.md Common patterns, best practices Implementation guidance
gotchas.md Pitfalls, limitations, debugging Troubleshooting

Cross-cutting concepts in ./references/<concept>/ have REFERENCE.md as the entry point.

Reading Order

  1. Start with REFERENCE.md for your chosen framework
  2. Then read additional files relevant to your task:
    • Building components -> api.md + components/<category>.md
    • Setting up project -> configuration.md
    • Layout/positioning -> layout/REFERENCE.md
    • Keyboard/input handling -> keyboard/REFERENCE.md
    • Animations -> animation/REFERENCE.md
    • Troubleshooting -> gotchas.md + testing/REFERENCE.md

Example Paths

./references/react/REFERENCE.md           # Start here for React
./references/react/api.md              # React components and hooks
./references/solid/configuration.md    # Solid project setup
./references/components/inputs.md      # Input, Textarea, Select docs
./references/core/gotchas.md           # Core debugging tips

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

Files

What ships with it

25 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. 9d ago First seen · 201 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A c7126cca7366

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opentui is a skill published in the GitHub repository christyjacob4/claude-tricks (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,812 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to opentui, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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