What is Terminal Guide?

A practical guide to configuring terminals and command-line tools on macOS and Linux. It covers Ghostty, shell settings, keyboard shortcuts, and Vim-style editing.

Setting up Ghostty, zsh plugins, terminal appearance, session persistence, word and line navigation, Vim keybindings, and common macOS terminal shortcuts.

It helps solve the confusion of finding configuration files and making shortcuts work consistently across the terminal, shell, and editor.

Terminal Guide — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by helloayushisharma: A practical guide to configuring terminals and command-line tools…

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/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup/terminal-guide

Any agent

npx skills add helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup --skill terminal-guide

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ghostty-claude-code-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup/terminal-guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup/terminal-guide)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup/terminal-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup/terminal-guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00074	$0.02368
Opus 5	$0.00037	$0.01184
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.00474
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00237

Measured 5d ago against content hash a82af5b75386, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

Terminal Guide scanned grade B with 2 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 5d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo mv lsd-v1.2.0-x86_64-apple-darwin/lsd /usr/local/bin/

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -LO https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd/releases/download/v1.2.0/lsd-v1.2.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz

skills/terminal-guide/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terminal Configuration Guide

Comprehensive guide for setting up a modern terminal experience on macOS with Ghostty, Warp-like features, zsh enhancements, and IDE-like vim keybindings.

Quick Reference

Keybindings Across All Apps

Shortcut	Shell/Terminal	Vim	Action
`Option+←/→`	Skip word	Skip word	Word navigation
`Cmd+←/→`	Line start/end	Line start/end	Line navigation
`Option+Backspace`	Delete word	Delete word	Delete backward
`Cmd+D`	Split pane	Duplicate line	Context-specific
`Cmd+K`	Clear screen	-	Clear terminal
`→` (Right Arrow)	Accept suggestion	-	Autosuggestion

Ghostty Configuration

Config Location

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/config
Linux: ~/.config/ghostty/config

Essential Settings

# Theme
theme = dark:Catppuccin Mocha,light:Catppuccin Latte

# macOS Option key as Alt (REQUIRED for keybindings)
macos-option-as-alt = true

# Transparency (set to 1.0 if not working)
background-opacity = 0.85
background-blur = true

# Session persistence
window-save-state = always
quit-after-last-window-closed = false

# Cursor
cursor-style = block
cursor-style-blink = false

# Shell integration
shell-integration = detect
shell-integration-features = no-cursor,sudo,title

Keybindings

# Navigation
keybind = cmd+right=text:\x05          # End of line
keybind = cmd+left=text:\x01           # Start of line
keybind = alt+right=text:\x1bf         # Forward word
keybind = alt+left=text:\x1bb          # Backward word
keybind = alt+backspace=text:\x17      # Delete word

# Splits
keybind = cmd+d=new_split:right
keybind = cmd+shift+d=new_split:down
keybind = cmd+alt+up=goto_split:top
keybind = cmd+alt+down=goto_split:bottom
keybind = cmd+alt+left=goto_split:left
keybind = cmd+alt+right=goto_split:right

# Tabs
keybind = cmd+t=new_tab
keybind = cmd+w=close_surface
keybind = cmd+1=goto_tab:1
keybind = cmd+2=goto_tab:2
# ... up to cmd+9

# Prompt jumping (requires shell integration)
keybind = cmd+up=jump_to_prompt:-1
keybind = cmd+down=jump_to_prompt:1

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 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.

5d ago First seen · 315 lines · 74 tokens per session scan B a82af5b75386

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Terminal Guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository helloayushisharma/ghostty-claude-code-setup (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,368 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, 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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