terminal

Design and build clean, professional, minimal terminal UI (TUI) applications and command-line tools. Use this skill whenever the user is building, designing, refactoring, reviewing, or asking about terminal interfaces — full-screen TUIs (file managers, dashboards, monitors, git/k8s tools, REPLs), interactive CLI prompts, or simple command-line utilities. Use it for library questions ("Bubble Tea vs Ratatui vs Textual vs Ink"), design questions ("how should I lay out this dashboard"), and concrete build requests ("build me a TUI for X"), even when the user doesn't say "TUI" explicitly — phrases like "terminal app", "ncurses-style", "interactive shell tool", "CLI dashboard", "fzf-like picker", or naming a known TUI app (lazygit, k9s, btop, helix, yazi) all qualify.

Generate deterministic screenshots and demo GIFs of command-line and terminal (TUI) applications using Charm VHS. Use this skill whenever the user wants to capture, record, screenshot, or make a GIF/video of a CLI or terminal app — for a README, docs site, marketing page, changelog, release notes, or visual regression tests. Trigger on phrases like "record a gif of my CLI", "demo gif for the README", "screenshot my terminal app", "capture the TUI", "make a terminal recording", "VHS tape", "charm vhs", "asciinema but as a gif", or any request to show a terminal program in motion or as a still — even when the user doesn't name VHS. Also use when a captured GIF is too large and needs to be shrunk for the web, or when setting up a repeatable capture pipeline for many scenes. Covers install, authoring tapes, determinism, motion-GIF storytelling, and the lossless size-optimization that makes GIFs web-viable.