terminal-ui

terminal-ui is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pproenca/dot-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for building terminal user interfaces in TypeScript with Ink and Clack. A terminal user interface is an interactive command-line screen with prompts, controls, and live output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building command-line tools, interactive prompts, or developer utilities with Ink or Clack. It also helps review and improve their terminal interaction design.
Why use it?
It helps prevent flickering, awkward keyboard behavior, unclear prompts, and inefficient screen updates. The guidance addresses rendering, input, state, feedback, configuration, and compatibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

not rated 203repo +3 23d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 69 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when building command-line tools, interactive prompts, or developer utilities with Ink or Clack. It also helps review and improve their terminal interaction design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pproenca/dot-skills/terminal-ui
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,269 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
  • Socket pass 15 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 May 2026
  • 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 $0.00069 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash c5bfcea2e74e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terminal-ui 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 8d 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/.curated/terminal-ui/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevEx Developer Experience TUI Best Practices

Comprehensive developer experience guide for building TypeScript terminal user interfaces using Ink (React for CLIs) and Clack prompts. Contains 42 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide automated refactoring and code generation.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Building CLI tools with interactive prompts using @clack/prompts
  • Creating React-based terminal UIs with Ink
  • Handling keyboard input and user interactions
  • Optimizing terminal rendering and preventing flicker
  • Designing developer-friendly CLI experiences

Rule Categories by Priority

Priority Category Impact Prefix
1 Rendering & Output CRITICAL render-
2 Input & Keyboard CRITICAL input-
3 Component Patterns HIGH tuicomp-
4 State & Lifecycle HIGH tuistate-
5 Prompt Design MEDIUM-HIGH prompt-
6 UX & Feedback MEDIUM ux-
7 Configuration & CLI MEDIUM tuicfg-
8 Robustness & Compatibility LOW-MEDIUM robust-

Quick Reference

1. Rendering & Output (CRITICAL)

  • render-single-write - Batch Terminal Output in Single Write
  • render-overwrite-dont-clear - Overwrite Content Instead of Clear and Redraw
  • render-synchronized-output - Use Synchronized Output Protocol for Animations
  • render-60fps-baseline - Target 60fps for Smooth Animation
  • render-partial-updates - Update Only Changed Regions
  • render-escape-sequence-batching - Defer ANSI Escape Code Generation to Final Output

2. Input & Keyboard (CRITICAL)

  • input-useinput-hook - Use useInput Hook for Keyboard Handling
  • input-immediate-feedback - Provide Immediate Visual Feedback for Input
  • input-modifier-keys - Handle Modifier Keys Correctly
  • input-isactive-focus - Use isActive Option for Focus Management
  • input-escape-routes - Always Provide Escape Routes

3. Component Patterns (HIGH)

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

47 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. 8d ago First seen · 112 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A c5bfcea2e74e

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terminal-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/dot-skills (203 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,269 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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