tui

A method for operating full-screen terminal programs such as Vim, htop, lazygit, or k9s through a terminal session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to edit files, inspect processes, manage Git changes, administer Kubernetes, or navigate other full-screen terminal tools.
Why use it?
These programs control the whole terminal screen, so ordinary command-and-output interaction is not enough.

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/deepgram/wsh/tui
Any agent
npx skills add deepgram/wsh --skill tui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepgram/wsh

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,141 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00053 $0.02141
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01071
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00214

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8a8c3d449bb7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tui scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> 2. **If you do NOT have `wsh_*` tools**: you are in HTTP/curl fallback mode.
skills/tui/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IMPORTANT: EXECUTION CONTEXT This skill describes what to do — domain patterns and decision-making. It does NOT describe how to call the API.

  1. If you have wsh_* tools (check your toolkit for wsh_send_input, wsh_get_screen, etc.): use them directly. Operation names in this skill generally map to tool names (e.g., "send input" → wsh_send_input). When in doubt, list your available wsh_* tools.
  2. If you do NOT have wsh_* tools: you are in HTTP/curl fallback mode. DO NOT GUESS endpoints or CLI subcommands. Load the full API reference first: search your workspace for skills/core/ and read SKILL.md. It contains every endpoint with working curl examples and a bootstrap sequence.
  3. Quick bootstrap: curl -sf --unix-socket ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/wsh/default.http.sock http://localhost/health — if that fails: wsh server -L agent-$$ --ephemeral & and retry.

wsh:tui — Operating Full-Screen Terminal Applications

Some programs take over the entire terminal — vim, htop, lazygit, k9s, midnight commander. They use the terminal's "alternate screen buffer," a fixed grid where the program controls every character position. This is a fundamentally different interaction model from command-and-response.

Detecting Alternate Screen Mode

When a TUI is active, the screen response includes:

"alternate_active": true

This tells you you're in grid mode. The screen is no longer a log of output — it's a 2D canvas the program redraws at will. Scrollback is irrelevant while alternate screen is active; the program owns the entire display.

When the TUI exits, alternate_active flips back to false and the normal scrollback view resumes exactly where it left off. None of the TUI's screen content leaks into scrollback.

Reading a 2D Grid

In a TUI, screen position matters. A line isn't just text — it's a row in a spatial layout. Use styled format here; formatting carries critical information:

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 2d ago First seen · 224 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8a8c3d449bb7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tui is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepgram/wsh (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed ISC. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,141 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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