tui-design

tui-design is a skill for Claude Code from hyperb1iss/hyperskills. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,511 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tui-design, MIT.

A design guide for terminal user interfaces (TUIs), which are text-based apps that run in a command window. It covers layouts, colours, keyboard controls and information display across TUI frameworks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design terminal dashboards, file managers and other command-line interfaces. It can guide layout choices, interaction flows, visual styles and checks for common design mistakes.
Why use it?
It helps avoid confusing screens, inconsistent spacing and awkward keyboard interactions. It gives a repeatable way to design for both fast expert use and beginner discoverability.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the hyperskills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design terminal dashboards, file managers and other command-line interfaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/tui-design
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 hyperb1iss/hyperskills --skill tui-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hyperb1iss/hyperskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hyperskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for tui-design

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/tui-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hyperb1iss/hyperskills/tui-design.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,511 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 97% 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 $0.00107 $0.02511
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01256
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00251

Measured yesterday against content hash fb9420bbf1cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tui-design 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 yesterday.

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

97% identical to tui-design — 477 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/tui-design/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TUI Design System

Design around the user's repeated action, the data they must keep in view, and the terminal capabilities actually available. Keep input responsive under slow I/O and make selection, focus, and operation state explicit.

Primary documentation checked: 2026-09-04. Framework APIs change; use the project's versions. Follow the project's visual identity (SilkCircuit Neon for Bliss's personal tools) rather than treating an example palette as a universal theme.

Choose the Layout from the Work

Work Layout Useful invariant
Browse related lists and details Persistent multi-panel Stable panel roles and visible focus
Navigate a hierarchy Miller columns or drill-down stack Back restores selection and scroll position
Monitor changing measurements Widget dashboard Labels, units, freshness, and a path to details
Edit requests, queries, or configuration Sidebar, editor, results Keep editing state when switching panels
Select a value for a shell command Inline picker or overlay Return a clean value and preserve shell scrollback
Read logs or events Fixed controls plus virtualized list Follow mode is explicit; scrolling back stops auto-follow

Read app-patterns.md for examples and tradeoffs. Read visual-catalog.md only when selecting glyphs, borders, charts, or indicators.

Responsive Behavior

Use constraints and content priorities. Keep the selected item visible while collapsing secondary panels; preserve state when they reappear. Recompute layout on resize without treating a zero-sized transient area as an error. Clamp scrolling after filtering, deletion, or a smaller viewport.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday Changed · -311 lines · -2 tokens per session fb9420bbf1cd
  2. 7d ago First seen · 453 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 645bf2c904bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tui-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository hyperb1iss/hyperskills (31 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,511 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to tui-design, differing in 477 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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