terminal-interaction

terminal-interaction is a skill for Claude Code from MadAppGang/magus. It costs 36 tokens per session (6,070 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide to using interactive terminal sessions, including tmux panes, which let commands keep running while the agent works elsewhere. It covers starting, observing, and interacting with development servers, test watchers, database shells, and other terminal programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps start development servers, watch tests and logs, query databases, split terminal panes, and navigate interactive command-line programs.
Why use it?
It avoids treating long-running or interactive commands like ordinary one-off commands. This makes it possible to monitor processes and send input without losing their state.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the terminal plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps start development servers, watch tests and logs, query databases, split terminal panes, and navigate interactive command-line programs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add MadAppGang/magus
Claude Code
/plugin install terminal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install terminal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,070 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.06070
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.03035
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00607

Measured yesterday against content hash fa44c617ad30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

terminal-interaction scanned grade C 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Unsubmitted input concatenates with your command.** tmux cannot see the shell's line buffer. If the user typed `rm -rf /data/` and never pressed Enter, the pane looks perfectly idle, and your command joins onto the e
plugins/terminal/skills/terminal-interaction/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terminal Interaction Skill

This skill teaches Claude how to use tmux-mcp for interactive terminal access: screen reading, keystroke injection, process monitoring, and TUI application navigation.

1. Tool selection

Every pane is addressed by a slot — an integer 1–64 — and by nothing else. You never hold a pane id; the server keeps the slot→pane map and places panes itself.

The slot convention, obeyed by every command in this plugin:

  • Slot 1 is the visible helper beside the user, in the window they are looking at. Omit slot and you get slot 1.
  • Private work takes isolated: true on slot 2 or higher — a pane nobody can see, on a private terminal server with no window.
  • Call list-slots before choosing a number when you may already hold slots (after compaction, or when resuming). Reusing a number reuses its pane.
Scenario Tool Kind
One-shot command, nobody needs to watch execute-command with isolated: true, no slot creating (ephemeral)
One-shot command beside the user execute-command creating
Start a process, block until it is ready start-and-watch creating
Type into a pane (commands, keys) send-keys creating
Multi-step REPL session run-in-repl creating
Show text to the user in a pane write-to-display creating
Get a pane now, run something later open-pane creating
Read the text of a slot capture-pane reading
Render a slot as an image (colors, TUI layout) screenshot-pane reading
Is the process alive / waiting for input pane-state reading
Block until a slot changes, exits, or goes idle watch-pane reading
Which slots do I hold list-slots registry
Finish with a slot, or with all of them close-pane registry
Transient message to the user (not a query) notify none

Decision rule: if the task involves waiting — for readiness, for output to change, for a REPL to respond — use start-and-watch, watch-pane or run-in-repl. For structural operations (get a pane, send a keystroke, read current state) use the rest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 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. yesterday Changed · -345 lines · -2 tokens per session fa44c617ad30
  2. 5d ago First seen · 679 lines · 38 tokens per session scan C 77e0f173c18a

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terminal-interaction is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/magus (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 6,070 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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