Agent skill

Tui Design

by pedronauck in pedronauck/skills

A skill your agent uses when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any…

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Tui Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill tui-design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pedronauck/skills tui-design --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/pedronauck/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/curated/tui-design .claude/skills/tui-design && 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
tui-design
GitHub stars
634
Token cost
~3.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,553 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
65
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any…

  • Designing terminal user interfaces
  • SKILL.md covers Choose the Layout from the Work, Input, Focus, and Editing, State and Async Work and Terminal Capability Policy, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Creating TUI layouts

What it does

Tui Design is an agent skill from pedronauck/skills. Use this skill when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any TUI framework. Activates on mentions of TUI design, terminal UI, Ratatui layout, Ink components, Textual widgets, Bubbletea views, terminal color palette, keybinding design, panel layout, split panes, terminal dashboard, box-drawing characters, sparklines, progress bars, modal dialogs, focus management, or terminal…

Its SKILL.md is about 3.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/app-patterns.md` and `references/visual-catalog.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering Accessibility and Theming and dark mode. The repository describes itself as: My personal favorite skills.

When your agent uses it

  • Designing terminal user interfaces
  • Creating TUI layouts
  • Choosing TUI color schemes
  • Implementing keyboard navigation

Example prompts

  • “/tui-design”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0422940. 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 (its code samples are dot).

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.rs
    • ratatui.rs
    • sw.kovidgoyal.net
    • no-color.org
    • unicode.org
    • w3.org

    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

Tui Design loads about 3.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 133 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,553 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~133
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6.8k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,553 words (~3,562 tokens).

“Design around the user's repeated action, the data they must keep in view, and the terminal capabilities actually available. Keep input responsive under slow I/O and make selection, focus, and operation state explicit.”

— opening of SKILL.md by pedronauck
name
tui-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/curated/tui-design of pedronauck/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/app-patterns.md
  • references/visual-catalog.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0422940

Compare with similar skills

Tui Design next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Tui Design compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Tui Design this skillpedronauck/skills634—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassNone
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Ant Designkqcoxn/MaaPipelineEditor4081 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Better Colorstrycompai/crm11k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Data-Dense Dashboard Designerplugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills1.6k—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Material Design 3 UI/UX Guideskydashnet/material-design-3-ui-skill135—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Tui Design

What does Tui Design do?

A skill your agent uses when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any…. Tui Design is an agent skill from pedronauck/skills. Use this skill when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any TUI framework.

When should I use Tui Design?

Tui Design fits situations like: designing terminal user interfaces; creating TUI layouts; choosing TUI color schemes; implementing keyboard navigation.

How do I install Tui Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill tui-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curated/tui-design in pedronauck/skills) into .claude/skills/tui-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Tui Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill tui-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/curated/tui-design in pedronauck/skills) into .agents/skills/tui-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Tui Design 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 pedronauck/skills --skill tui-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tui-design, .gemini/skills/tui-design, .github/skills/tui-design and .opencode/skills/tui-design in your project.

What does Tui Design need to run?

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

Does Tui Design access the network?

SKILL.md names 6 domains. As links in the text: docs.rs, ratatui.rs, sw.kovidgoyal.net, no-color.org, unicode.org and w3.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Tui Design 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 Tui Design use?

No licence was found for Tui Design or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Tui Design use?

About 3.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 14k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 3.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Tui Design?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Tui Design: Color Audit (rome-os/rome, 737 stars), Ant Design (kqcoxn/MaaPipelineEditor, 408 stars), Better Colors (trycompai/crm, 11k stars) and Data-Dense Dashboard Designer (plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills, 1.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Tui Design?

pedronauck (a GitHub user) maintains it in pedronauck/skills, which has 634 GitHub stars. The repository holds 65 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

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