iterm2-profiles

iterm2-profiles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lyhcode/agent-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,474 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for creating and managing iTerm2 profiles, which are saved terminal settings on macOS. It covers appearance, keyboard shortcuts, automatic profile selection, and the terminal status bar.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure terminal colors and fonts, create profile-specific key mappings, switch profiles automatically, and set up status bar information.
Why use it?
It avoids manually navigating iTerm2’s settings for repeated profile changes. It also provides a structured way to manage profiles using iTerm2’s dynamic profile files.

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/lyhcode/agent-skills/iterm2-profiles
Any agent
npx skills add lyhcode/agent-skills --skill iterm2-profiles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lyhcode/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,474 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00091 $0.01474
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00147

Measured 3d ago against content hash 18908794ad57, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iterm2-profiles 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 3d 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.

skills/iterm2-profiles/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.

iTerm2 Profile Management & Visual Customization

Help the user create, manage, and customize iTerm2 profiles — including colors, fonts, key mappings, automatic profile switching, and status bar configuration.

User's Environment

  • iTerm2 3.6.8 on macOS, using zsh
  • Preferences stored at: defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2
  • Dynamic Profiles directory: ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/DynamicProfiles/

Core Concepts

Dynamic Profiles

Dynamic Profiles are the preferred way to manage iTerm2 profiles programmatically. They are JSON (or plist) files placed in ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/DynamicProfiles/. iTerm2 watches this directory and reloads automatically on changes.

Each file contains a Profiles array:

{
  "Profiles": [
    {
      "Name": "My Profile",
      "Guid": "unique-uuid-here",
      "Dynamic Profile Parent Name": "Default",
      "Background Color": {
        "Red Component": 0.1,
        "Green Component": 0.1,
        "Blue Component": 0.15,
        "Alpha Component": 1,
        "Color Space": "sRGB"
      },
      "Normal Font": "MesloLGS-NF-Regular 15"
    }
  ]
}

Key rules:

  • Every profile needs a unique Guid (use uuidgen to generate)
  • Name is the display name in iTerm2's profile list
  • Use Dynamic Profile Parent Name to inherit from another profile — only override what you want to change
  • Colors use the {"Red Component": float, "Green Component": float, "Blue Component": float, "Alpha Component": float, "Color Space": "sRGB"} format, with values from 0.0 to 1.0

Color Scheme Structure

iTerm2 uses 22 named colors in a profile:

Key Purpose
Foreground Color Default text
Background Color Terminal background
Bold Color Bold text
Cursor Color Cursor fill
Cursor Text Color Text under cursor
Cursor Guide Color Horizontal line at cursor (set alpha ~0.25)
Selection Color Selection background
Selected Text Color Selected text
Badge Color Badge overlay text
Link Color Clickable links
Ansi 0 ColorAnsi 15 Color The 16 ANSI colors (0-7 normal, 8-15 bright)

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 142 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 18908794ad57

Subscribe to this mod's changes

iterm2-profiles is a skill published in the GitHub repository lyhcode/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,474 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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