Agent skill

Render Command Output

by crowdin in crowdin/crowdin-cli

A skill your agent uses when adding or changing what a CLI command prints - creating or editing views (views.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit…

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Install Render Command Output

skills CLI
$ npx skills add crowdin/crowdin-cli --skill render-command-output -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install crowdin/crowdin-cli render-command-output --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crowdin/crowdin-cli.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/render-command-output .claude/skills/render-command-output && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
render-command-output
GitHub stars
319
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
784 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when adding or changing what a CLI command prints - creating or editing views (views.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit…

  • Changing what a CLI command prints - creating
  • SKILL.md covers The model, What each format is for, and…, --verbose adds more information and Rendering surface - Output…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Editing views (views.ts)

What it does

Render Command Output is an agent skill from crowdin/crowdin-cli. Use when adding or changing what a CLI command prints - creating or editing views (views.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit, --verbose behavior, empty states, warnings and errors, stdout vs stderr, or reviewing output-related changes.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A command-line client for the Crowdin API. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Changing what a CLI command prints - creating
  • Editing views (views.ts)
  • List/item/grid/table rendering
  • Deciding what --output plain

Example prompts

  • “/render-command-output”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1522c9b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Render Command Output loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 784 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~77
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from crowdin/crowdin-cli at commit 1522c9b, republished under its MIT licence (© crowdin). 784 words, ~1,564 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/render-command-output/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
render-command-output
description
Use when adding or changing what a CLI command prints - creating or editing views (views.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit, --verbose behavior, empty states, warnings and errors, stdout vs stderr, or reviewing output-related changes.

Command output philosophy

The model

One global flag, four formats: --output = text (default) | json | toon | plain, implemented in cli/utils/output.ts + cli/utils/formatter.ts. Two axes classify them:

  • Machine vs prose: json, toon, and plain are parseable contracts - the command owes the caller a result document, not narrative.
  • Structured vs line-oriented: json/toon serialize a value wholesale; text and plain emit lines.

Core principle: stdout carries only the result document; diagnostics go to stderr in every format.

What each format is for, and how it should look

text - a human at a terminal. The only format with ceremony: colors, success/info symbols, spinners, intro/outro, empty-state notices, friendly sentences. Everything decorative lives here and only here. Views color their own lines (colors.yellow('#id'), green names) - colors auto-disable outside text, so views never guard them.

plain - a shell pipeline. Machine-oriented but line-oriented: the zero-dependency format for grep/xargs/awk. One bare line per entity: identifier first, then space-safe fields - a field that can contain spaces goes last or stays out, so the line splits predictably on whitespace. No symbols, no color, no prose: File #12: path is a text line, not a plain line; self-description for machines lives in json/toon. The line is the contract - its wording is frozen once shipped, and zero lines is itself a valid answer (an empty list prints nothing). A view defines plain when the pipeline line differs from the human line; when the text line already is the bare contract, plain falls back to it.

json - a parser. The complete structured result: values in raw shape (the view does no display shaping here), narrowed by the view's keys to the fields the rendered line shows, pretty-printed on stdout. Missing keys become null rather than vanishing, so lists stay uniform. Diagnostics are one compact record per line on stderr ({"level","message"[,"code"]}), emitted as they happen so a killed run keeps what it already reported.

toon - an AI agent. The same data contract as json in TOON's token-efficient tabular encoding. Never diverges from json in what is carried, only in how it's encoded (stderr records are blank-line separated).

--verbose adds more information

--verbose doesn't depend on the output format - it means "show more information", and each format renders that the way it renders everything else. Mechanically, a verbose view extends the base view (the text line and keys); shipped plain lines keep their contract.

Rendering surface - Output methods per format

Methodtextplainjson / toon
list(items, view, {empty})◆ view.text per item; info line with empty when zero itemsview.plain (fallback: view.text) per item; nothing when emptyitems narrowed to view.keys; [] when empty
item(value, view, {mark})view.text, ◆ prefix unless mark: falseview.plain ?? view.text, barevalue narrowed to view.keys
grid / tablerendered gridnothing - hand-roll a plain view (see Report shapes)serialized rows
warning / erroricon line → stderrbare line → stderrone record per line → stderr
success / info / log, intro/outro, spinner progressshownsilentsilent

A spinner's error operation routes to error(), so spinner failures reach stderr in every format; only its progress messages are text-only.

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Report shapes - follow the precedent

ShapePlain formPrecedent
Entity report (info-style)bare-id headline + the same detail lines as textcommands/string/views.ts createStringView
Stats reportKey: value per line; no title, no footercommands/context/views.ts contextStatusPlainView
2-D grid (languages × metrics)hand-rolled plain view; a direct options.output === 'plain' branch is allowed herecommands/status/StatusCommand.ts
Dry-run path listingmachine format wins over --tree; use printDryRunPathscommands/common/dryRunPaths.ts

Multi-line reports render via output.item(value, view, { mark: false }) - a report block, not a mutation echo.

Contract rules

  • Plain wording is frozen. Scripts parse these lines. Changing an existing plain line - or a keys name - is a breaking change. "Friendlier"/"more readable" belongs to text; plain optimizes for awk '{print $1}', not for eyes.
  • Behavior differences between formats are contracts, not tools. A few commands deliberately behave differently under plain (suppressed messages, an error where text warns); each is documented in a code comment where it occurs. Never invent new ones.
  • Direct format branching (options.output === 'plain', isMachineFormat, isStructuredFormat) in an action is allowed only for hand-rolled reports and the established behavior differences above. Everything else goes through one View and the Output helper.

Common mistakes

MistakeReality
Expecting the empty message in machine formatsIt renders via info() → text only. json/toon print []; plain prints nothing - zero lines is the answer
Emitting warnings via log()/console.log, or assuming they're dropped outside textoutput.warning() → stderr in every format, structured record in json/toon
Decorating the plain line to make it self-describingPlain is bare fields, identifier first; self-description lives in json/toon
Branching on options.output for a plain listOne View + output.list covers all four formats
Checking === 'plain' where json/toon also owe the resultUse isMachineFormat/isStructuredFormat from formatter.ts
Rewording an existing plain line during a refactorFrozen contract - treat as a breaking change, don't

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Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/render-command-output of crowdin/crowdin-cli.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1522c9b

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Questions about Render Command Output

What does Render Command Output do?

A skill your agent uses when adding or changing what a CLI command prints - creating or editing views (views.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit…. Render Command Output is an agent skill from crowdin/crowdin-cli.ts), list/item/grid/table rendering, deciding what --output plain, json, or toon emit, --verbose behavior, empty states, warnings and errors, stdout vs stderr, or reviewing output-related changes.

When should I use Render Command Output?

Render Command Output fits situations like: changing what a CLI command prints - creating; editing views (views.ts); list/item/grid/table rendering; deciding what --output plain.

How do I install Render Command Output in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add crowdin/crowdin-cli --skill render-command-output -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/render-command-output in crowdin/crowdin-cli) into .claude/skills/render-command-output in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Render Command Output in Codex?

Run `npx skills add crowdin/crowdin-cli --skill render-command-output -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/render-command-output in crowdin/crowdin-cli) into .agents/skills/render-command-output in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Render Command Output in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add crowdin/crowdin-cli --skill render-command-output -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/render-command-output, .gemini/skills/render-command-output, .github/skills/render-command-output and .opencode/skills/render-command-output in your project.

What does Render Command Output need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Render Command Output is instructions for the agent only.

Does Render Command Output access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Render Command Output safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Render Command Output use?

Render Command Output is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Render Command Output use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Render Command Output?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Render Command Output: Render Blocking (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Web Renderer Test (remotion-dev/remotion, 62k stars), Make Changes (remix-run/remix, 33k stars) and Render (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Render Command Output?

crowdin (a GitHub organization) maintains it in crowdin/crowdin-cli, which has 319 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: crowdin/crowdin-cli on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.