tui-designer

tui-designer is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (6,662 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for terminal interfaces with retro computer and cyberpunk visuals, such as dark screens, glowing text, scanlines, and monospace layouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating terminal UIs, CRT effects, neon displays, hacker-style dashboards, and retro-inspired interfaces in web or SwiftUI projects.
Why use it?
It helps keep a terminal-style interface visually consistent while covering common display effects and interaction choices.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Creating terminal UIs, CRT effects, neon displays, hacker-style dashboards, and retro-inspired interfaces in web or SwiftUI projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/tui-designer
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 ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill tui-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,662 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 $0.00064 $0.06662
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.03331
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00666

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2c8771704ce1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tui-designer 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_palette.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/tui-designer/SKILL.md · 777 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 777 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TUI Designer - Retro/Cyberpunk Terminal UI Expert

Expert guidance for designing and implementing text-based user interfaces with authentic retro computing aesthetics: CRT monitors, phosphor glow, scanlines, and cyberpunk neon.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating terminal-style or hacker aesthetic UIs
  • Implementing CRT monitor effects (scanlines, glow, barrel distortion)
  • Building cyberpunk/synthwave/retrowave interfaces
  • Using Tuimorphic components in React
  • Implementing Metal shaders for retro effects in SwiftUI
  • Designing neon glow text and UI elements
  • Choosing color palettes for retro computing aesthetics
  • Working with monospace fonts and box-drawing characters

Design Principles

The Retro/Cyberpunk Aesthetic

This aesthetic draws from:

  • CRT monitors: Phosphor glow, scanlines, screen curvature, flicker
  • Terminal interfaces: Monospace fonts, box-drawing characters, green/amber text
  • Cyberpunk fiction: Neon colors, dark backgrounds, high contrast
  • 1980s computing: ASCII art, limited color palettes, blocky graphics

Visual Elements Checklist

  • Dark background (near-black with subtle color tint)
  • Monospace typography throughout
  • Box-drawing characters for borders and frames
  • Neon glow on text and/or borders
  • Scanline effect (subtle horizontal lines)
  • Limited color palette (1-3 accent colors)
  • High contrast between text and background
  • Optional: CRT curvature, chromatic aberration, flicker

Quick Reference: Color Palettes

Phosphor Green (Classic Terminal)

Role Hex Usage
Bright #00ff00 Primary text, highlights
Medium #00cc00 Secondary text
Dark #009900 Dimmed elements
Background #001100 Main background
Deep BG #000800 Panel backgrounds

Cyberpunk Neon

Role Hex Usage
Cyan #00ffff Primary accent
Magenta #ff00ff Secondary accent
Electric Blue #0066ff Tertiary
Hot Pink #ff1493 Warnings
Background #0a0a1a Main background

Read the full file on GitHub · 777 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. 7d ago First seen · 777 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2c8771704ce1

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tui-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 6,662 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 2026-09-03.

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