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tui-design from diegomarino/tui-design is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add diegomarino/tui-design/tui-design@git:20261004.57c199f

Pins git:20261004.57c199f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
diegomarino/tui-design
Path
skills/tui-design/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261004.57c199f, committed Oct 4, 2026
Size
19,419 bytes
Repository stars
22
License
MIT

Design, mock up, build and review terminal UIs — full-screen TUIs, interactive CLIs and pickers, and plugin panels or popups inside a host (herdr, tmux, Neovim, k9s, lazygit). Use when designing, reviewing (from code, a live capture or a screenshot) or redesigning a TUI's layout, keybindings, states or colors, including requests that name a known TUI (lazygit, k9s, btop, yazi, helix, fzf); writing terminal mockups; building or fixing one in Ink, Textual, Bubble Tea, Ratatui or gum; mapping a…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# tui-design

Design, prototype, build and review terminal UIs with evidence instead of taste. Everything here is **terminal-honest**: a screen is a grid of cells, one font size, integer columns, colors and SGR attributes (bold, dim, italic, underline, inverse, strike), box-drawing for structure. A design that cannot be drawn in that grid — or that the host cannot draw — does not exist.

`SKILL_DIR` is this skill's base directory; run every script as `SKILL_DIR/scripts/<name>` (Python ones with `python3`, or `uv run` when the script header says so). `--help` is the source of truth for flags.

## Before any branch: classify and frame

1. **Product shape** (`references/layout-archetypes.md#product-shapes`): full-screen session · inline picker (summon–choose–exit) · one-shot CLI · **plugin or popup inside a host**. The shape fixes the output contract and who owns the screen, keys and styling. For an inline picker, a one-shot CLI or any app that can run in a pipe or script, the shell boundary (exit codes, Ctrl-C and SIGPIPE, which stream gets what, `--json`, cd on exit) is part of the design: `references/cli-contract.md`.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add diegomarino/tui-design/tui-design@sha256:a97aa1094e6dd5bb

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.57c199f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_b3eoflotlgrqoy6g.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_b3eoflotlgrqoy6g)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 4, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261004.57c199f latest2026-10-04 57c199f 19,419 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19419 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

diegomarino/tui-design · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b3eoflotlgrqoy6g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=diegomarino/tui-design/tui-design
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a97aa1094e6dd5bb79ebb9eea10939a77a38eda74a9720ba610261486e098126

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