tui-development

Development guidance for a terminal user interface, or TUI: an interactive program that runs inside a command-line window. It covers a Rust-based OpenShell dashboard for gateways, workspaces, sandboxes, and logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or fixing OpenShell’s terminal dashboard, including keyboard navigation, themes, gateway data, sandboxes, and logs.
Why use it?
It gives developers the project’s expected structure, navigation, data-fetching approach, and visual conventions when changing the TUI.

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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/nvidia/openshell/tui-development
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill tui-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,022 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 $0.00073 $0.08022
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.04011
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00802

Measured 2d ago against content hash b73a80f86cef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tui-development 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 2d 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/tui-development/SKILL.md · 621 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 621 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenShell TUI Development Guide

Comprehensive reference for any agent working on the OpenShell TUI.

1. Overview

The OpenShell TUI is a ratatui-based terminal UI for the OpenShell platform. It provides a keyboard-driven interface for managing gateways, sandboxes, and logs — the same operations available via the openshell CLI, but with a live, interactive dashboard.

  • Launched via: openshell term or mise run term
  • Crate: crates/openshell-tui/
  • Key dependencies:
    • ratatui (workspace version) — uses frame.size() (not frame.area())
    • crossterm (workspace version) — terminal backend and event polling
    • tonic with TLS — gRPC client for the OpenShell gateway
    • tokio — async runtime for event loop, spawned tasks, and mpsc channels
    • openshell-core — proto-generated types (OpenShellClient, request/response structs)
    • openshell-bootstrap — gateway discovery (list_gateways())
  • Theme: Adaptive dark/light via Theme struct — NVIDIA-branded green accents. Controlled by --theme flag, OPENSHELL_THEME env var, or auto-detection.

2. Domain Object Hierarchy

The data model follows a strict hierarchy: Gateway > Workspace > Sandboxes/Providers/Settings > Logs.

Gateway (discovered via openshell_bootstrap::list_gateways())
  ├── Global Settings (fetched via GetGatewayConfig)
  ├── Global Policy indicator (fetched via ListSandboxPolicies global=true)
  ├── Workspaces (fetched via ListWorkspaces)
  ├── Provider Profiles (fetched via ListProviderProfiles, workspace-scoped)
  ├── Providers (fetched via ListProviders, workspace-scoped)
  │     └── cached ProviderProfile (matched by type + workspace)
  └── Sandboxes (fetched via ListSandboxes, workspace-scoped)
        ├── Policy (fetched via GetSandboxConfig)
        ├── Settings (effective settings with scope, from GetSandboxConfig)
        ├── Draft recommendations (fetched via GetDraftPolicy)
        └── Logs (fetched via GetSandboxLogs + streamed via WatchSandbox)

Read the full file on GitHub · 621 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. 2d ago First seen · 621 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A b73a80f86cef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tui-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/OpenShell (8,421 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 8,022 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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