tmux-real-user-testing

tmux-real-user-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from QwenLM/qwen-code. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A real-user test workflow for Qwen Code's terminal interface, using tmux to drive the program and capture readable screen snapshots. tmux is a tool for running and observing terminal sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test terminal interactions, dialogs, keyboard navigation, slash commands, authentication flows, and other end-to-end journeys.
Why use it?
It preserves the intermediate screens and user actions, making interactive failures easier for maintainers to reproduce and inspect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test terminal interactions, dialogs, keyboard navigation, slash commands, authentication flows, and other end-to-end journeys.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qwenlm/qwen-code/tmux-real-user-testing
About the project

Qwen Code is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in a terminal and helps developers work with code through language models. It supports multiple model providers and can also be used through IDEs, desktop software, SDKs, and messaging bots.

QwenLM/qwen-code · 27,707 stars · on GitHub · qwenlm.github.io

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 QwenLM/qwen-code --skill tmux-real-user-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,249 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00098 $0.02249
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00225

Measured 9d ago against content hash 67195ffad736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tmux-real-user-testing 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/tmux-real-user-log.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.qwen/skills/tmux-real-user-testing/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tmux Real User Testing

Run Qwen Code in a real tmux TUI session as a user would: navigate dialogs, trigger slash commands, exercise workflows, and save a readable log that maintainers can review. Prefer this workflow when the goal is not just a pass/fail assertion, but a narrative artifact showing what happened on screen.

Core principle

Use tmux as a real-use harness. Drive the TUI with realistic keyboard actions, then save a step-by-step readable transcript with tmux capture-pane -p after each meaningful state change.

Avoid relying on tmux pipe-pane as the primary report. pipe-pane captures raw ANSI/control streams from React Ink TUI output and often looks like garbled text when opened as plain text. Use pipe-pane only as an optional forensic artifact. Make tmux-readable-full.log the main deliverable.

When to use

Use this workflow for:

  • TUI behavior, rendering, dialogs, keyboard navigation, slash commands, or auth flows.
  • Realistic workflows where a maintainer wants to read the journey afterward.
  • Regression testing where final state is insufficient and intermediate screens matter.
  • User-facing flows such as /auth, /model, /manage-models, MCP setup, permissions, onboarding, or interactive error recovery.

Use headless JSON E2E instead when only tool execution or model API behavior needs structured assertions.

Standard artifact layout

Create a timestamped directory under project tmp/:

tmp/<scenario>-tmux-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS/
├── tmux-readable-full.log   # primary report: step-by-step readable snapshots
├── tmux-final-capture.log   # final screen only
├── current-pane.txt         # latest poll/snapshot scratch file
└── report.md                # short summary with result and artifact pointers

Do not overwrite previous runs. Preserve complete logs unless the user explicitly asks to sanitize or trim them.

Use scripts/tmux-real-user-log.sh to avoid rewriting shell glue. The script can start a session, append labeled snapshots, send keys, wait for text, and finish.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 262 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 67195ffad736

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tmux-real-user-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository QwenLM/qwen-code (27,707 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,249 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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