bubbletea

A development skill for building terminal user interfaces in Go with Bubbletea and Lipgloss. A terminal user interface is an interactive app that runs in a command-line window.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or fix Go terminal apps, including dual-pane layouts, panels, accordions, keyboard and mouse controls, styling, and visual effects.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for common layout, sizing, styling, keyboard, and mouse problems in terminal interfaces. It also includes templates and patterns for reusable interface components.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/compozy/skeeper/bubbletea
Any agent
npx skills add compozy/skeeper --skill bubbletea
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/compozy/skeeper

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,083 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% 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 $0.00063 $0.02083
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01042
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00208

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1a55737f9515, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bubbletea 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 2d 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

92% identical to bubbletea — 7 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.

.agents/skills/bubbletea/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bubbletea TUI Development

Production-ready skill for building beautiful terminal user interfaces with Go, Bubbletea, and Lipgloss.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating new TUI applications with Go
  • Adding Bubbletea components to existing apps
  • Fixing layout/rendering issues (borders, alignment, overflow)
  • Implementing mouse/keyboard interactions
  • Building dual-pane or multi-panel layouts
  • Adding visual effects (metaballs, waves, rainbow text)
  • Troubleshooting TUI rendering problems

Core Principles

CRITICAL: Before implementing ANY layout, consult references/golden-rules.md for the 4 Golden Rules. These rules prevent the most common and frustrating TUI layout bugs.

The 4 Golden Rules (Summary)

  1. Always Account for Borders - Subtract 2 from height calculations BEFORE rendering panels
  2. Never Auto-Wrap in Bordered Panels - Always truncate text explicitly
  3. Match Mouse Detection to Layout - Use X coords for horizontal, Y coords for vertical
  4. Use Weights, Not Pixels - Proportional layouts scale perfectly

Full details and examples in references/golden-rules.md.

Creating New Projects

This project includes a production-ready template system. When this skill is bundled with a new project (via new_project.sh), use the existing template structure as the starting point.

Project Structure

All new projects follow this architecture:

your-app/
├── main.go              # Entry point (minimal, ~21 lines)
├── types.go             # Type definitions, structs, enums
├── model.go             # Model initialization & layout calculation
├── update.go            # Message dispatcher
├── update_keyboard.go   # Keyboard handling
├── update_mouse.go      # Mouse handling
├── view.go              # View rendering & layouts
├── styles.go            # Lipgloss style definitions
├── config.go            # Configuration management
└── .claude/skills/bubbletea/  # This skill (bundled)

Architecture Guidelines

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 278 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 1a55737f9515

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bubbletea is a skill published in the GitHub repository compozy/skeeper (85 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,083 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to bubbletea, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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