building-glamorous-tuis

building-glamorous-tuis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nikships/skills-registry. It costs 65 tokens per session (3,381 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for building interactive terminal interfaces in Go or adding prompts, spinners, and styling to shell scripts using Charmbracelet tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Go terminal apps, improve shell output, serve an interface over SSH, record terminal demos, or find components such as tables and progress bars.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the right Charmbracelet library and provides patterns for layouts, forms, animations, and application state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to build Go terminal apps, improve shell output, serve an interface over SSH, record terminal demos, or find components such as tables and progress bars.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nikships/skills-registry/building-glamorous-tuis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nikships/skills-registry --skill building-glamorous-tuis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikships/skills-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,381 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00065 $0.03381
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00338

Measured 12d ago against content hash e52900c62606, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-glamorous-tuis 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/building-glamorous-tuis/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Glamorous TUIs with Charmbracelet

Quick Router — Start Here

I need to... Use Reference
Add prompts/spinners to a shell script Gum (no Go) Shell Scripts
Build a Go TUI Bubble Tea + Lip Gloss Go TUI
Build a production-grade Go TUI Above + elite patterns Production Architecture
Serve a TUI over SSH Wish + Bubble Tea Infrastructure
Record a terminal demo VHS Shell Scripts
Find a Bubbles component list, table, viewport, spinner, progress... Component Catalog
Get a copy-paste pattern Layouts, forms, animation, testing Quick Reference / Advanced Patterns

Decision Guide

Is it a shell script?
├─ Yes → Use Gum
│        Need recording? → VHS
│        Need AI? → Mods
│
└─ No (Go application)
   │
   ├─ Just styled output? → Lip Gloss only
   ├─ Simple prompts/forms? → Huh standalone
   ├─ Full interactive TUI? → Bubble Tea + Bubbles + Lip Gloss
   │  │
   │  └─ Production-grade?  → Also add elite patterns:
   │     (multi-view, data-    two-phase async, immutable snapshots,
   │      dense, must be       adaptive layout, focus state machine,
   │      fast & polished)     semantic theming, pre-computed styles
   │                           → See Production Architecture reference
   │
   └─ Need SSH access? → Wish + Bubble Tea

Shell Scripts (No Go Required)

brew install gum  # One-time install
# Input
NAME=$(gum input --placeholder "Your name")

# Selection
COLOR=$(gum choose "red" "green" "blue")

# Fuzzy filter from stdin
BRANCH=$(git branch | gum filter)

# Confirmation
gum confirm "Continue?" && echo "yes"

# Spinner
gum spin --title "Working..." -- long-command

# Styled output
gum style --border rounded --padding "1 2" "Hello"

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 294 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A e52900c62606

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building-glamorous-tuis is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikships/skills-registry (18 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,381 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 2026-08-30.