gaia-tui-manual SKILL.md skillA
gaia-tui-manual from amd/gaia is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amd/gaia/gaia-tui-manual@git:20261018.65415eePins git:20261018.65415ee in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amd/gaia
- Path
.claude/skills/gaia-tui-manual/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261018.65415ee, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,463 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,593
- License
- MIT
The GAIA terminal UI (gaia-tui) — how to build it, launch it with a real pty, drive it through the loopback control API, choose a local or cloud model provider, and read its logs. Use when running, testing, debugging, or documenting the TUI, when a preflight row blocks a launch, when driving the TUI from a script or assistant, or when a TUI question would otherwise be answered by guessing at the Go source.
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
# GAIA Terminal UI Two manuals carry the detail. **Read the matching one before touching the TUI** — both are written from verified runs, not from reading the source. - **[User manual](../../../docs/guides/tui.mdx)** (`docs/guides/tui.mdx`) — install, the setup gate and what each row means, choosing where inference runs, day-to-day use, the permission prompt, troubleshooting. - **[Developer manual](../../../docs/reference/tui-dev.mdx)** (`docs/reference/tui-dev.mdx`) — the three-process architecture, building, the full control-API reference, pty allocation, logs and traces, and running a local model on a dev box. `.claude/skills/driving-the-tui/` covers the same control API from the assistant's side; the developer manual is the reference it defers to for endpoint shapes. ## The five things that waste the most time Each of these cost a real debugging session. They are in the manuals too — this is the short list worth carrying in your head. 1. **The agent subprocess outlives your edits.** `gaia-tui` spawns `gaia-agent` once. Change Python under `src/gaia/` or `hub/agents/` and the running session keeps executing the old code — a before/after measurement taken …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amd/gaia/gaia-tui-manual@sha256:ae4075a651dcf892The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.65415ee, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 29, 2026 and Oct 18, 2026, about one every 19 days.
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| git:20261018.65415ee latest | 2026-10-18 | 65415ee | 3,463 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.4e38c4f | 2026-09-29 | 4e38c4f | 3,481 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amd/gaia · 1,593 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k2wc3xpjlbdvwxad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amd/gaia/gaia-tui-manual GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae4075a651dcf892f9ac85462f4e6feade286ee2e436a17c902d18900d4f2cbd
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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