tui-explorer

tui-explorer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pproenca/agent-tui. It costs 54 tokens per session (425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for exploring terminal user interfaces and turning discovered navigation paths into replayable acceptance tests. Acceptance tests check that an app behaves as expected from a user's point of view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a terminal app with bounded breadth-first search, generate Markdown test scenarios and traces, and verify those scenarios with agent-tui.
Why use it?
It helps find reachable screens and interactions systematically, then lets you repeat the same checks to catch regressions.

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/pproenca/agent-tui/tui-explorer
Any agent
npx skills add pproenca/agent-tui --skill tui-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pproenca/agent-tui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 425 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 $0.00054 $0.00425
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash 03598136e2ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tui-explorer 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/tui-explorer/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

tui-explorer

Purpose

Generate replayable acceptance tests from discovered TUI navigation paths.

Commands

  • Discover:
    • skills/tui-explorer/scripts/tui_explorer discover --command "<app command>"
  • Verify:
    • skills/tui-explorer/scripts/tui_explorer verify --spec "<path-to-acceptance.md>"

Defaults

  • Exploration strategy: bounded BFS.
  • Safe action set: Enter, Tab, ArrowDown, ArrowUp, ArrowRight, ArrowLeft, Esc, Space.
  • Risky actions are disabled unless --allow-risky is set.
  • Output directory defaults to .agent-tui/discover/<timestamp>/.
  • Replay fails on scenario failure and exits non-zero.

Workflow

  1. Start live preview over the HTTP endpoint with agent-tui live start --open before discovery so the user can watch exploration in the built-in web UI.
  2. Run discover for the target command.
  3. Inspect generated artifacts:
    • acceptance.md (human-readable OpenSpec-style expectations + machine-executable steps)
    • trace.jsonl
    • discover-report.json
  4. Run verify against the generated acceptance.md.
  5. Stop live preview with agent-tui live stop after verification.

Session handling for live preview:

  • Treat browser session selection as preview-local context only.
  • Do not use browser interactions to switch the daemon active session.
  1. On failure, inspect verify-report.json and files under failures/.

References

  • Schema details: references/schema-v1.md
  • Discovery mechanics: references/discovery.md
  • Replay semantics: references/replay.md
Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 47 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 03598136e2ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tui-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/agent-tui (114 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 425 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.

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