dotfiles: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/building-tui-apps/SKILL.md

building-tui-apps is a skill for Claude Code from mhagrelius/dotfiles. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,916 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for building interactive programs that run inside a terminal window. It covers keyboard controls, live updates, multiple panels, resizing, flickering, slowness, and unresponsiveness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build terminal dashboards and full-screen apps, add keyboard navigation and live data, or troubleshoot display and responsiveness problems.
Why use it?
Terminal interfaces can become difficult to use when screen updates, input, or window resizing are handled poorly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is mhagrelius/dotfiles's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on dotfiles itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dotfiles configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mhagrelius/dotfiles. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhagrelius/dotfiles/main/.claude/skills/building-tui-apps/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhagrelius/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,916 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 unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.03916
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01958
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00783
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00392

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6f57b476a5f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-tui-apps 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 7d 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.

.claude/skills/building-tui-apps/SKILL.md · 579 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago First seen · 579 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 6f57b476a5f2

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building-tui-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository mhagrelius/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,916 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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