ghostty-terminfo SKILL.md skillA
ghostty-terminfo from soulmachine/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add soulmachine/skills/ghostty-terminfo@git:20261010.bcafdeaPins git:20261010.bcafdea in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- soulmachine/skills
- Path
ghostty-terminfo/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261010.bcafdea, committed Oct 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 31, 2026
- Size
- 7,382 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when SSHing to a remote host from Ghostty terminal and encountering terminfo errors, missing colors, broken key bindings, "unknown terminal type" warnings, or an entry that looks installed but still does not resolve.
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
# Ghostty Terminfo Installation ## Overview Ghostty uses `xterm-ghostty` as its `$TERM` value. Remote hosts that lack this terminfo entry will show broken terminal behavior. The fix is to transfer the terminfo from the local machine to the remote host. `tic` run as a normal user writes to `~/.terminfo`, which ncurses searches before the system directory. No sudo, and nothing to add to shell rc files. ## When to Use - Remote SSH sessions show "unknown terminal type xterm-ghostty" - Missing colors, broken backspace/arrow keys, or garbled output over SSH - Setting up a new remote host for use with Ghostty - Writing SSH scripts that should handle Ghostty terminfo automatically - The entry appears to be installed on the host, but SSH sessions are still broken ## Quick Reference | Task | Command | |------|---------| | Check if remote has terminfo | `ssh HOST 'infocmp xterm-ghostty >/dev/null 2>&1'` | | Install terminfo on remote | `infocmp -x xterm-ghostty \| ssh HOST tic -x -` | | One-liner check + install | `ssh HOST 'infocmp xterm-ghostty >/dev/null 2>&1' \|\| infocmp -x xterm-ghostty \| ssh HOST tic -x -` | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add soulmachine/skills/ghostty-terminfo@sha256:dc93f6eaad603a73The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.bcafdea, 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 5 versions of this file, between Mar 31, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 48 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261010.bcafdea latest | 2026-10-10 | bcafdea | 7,382 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.15d80f0 | 2026-10-03 | 15d80f0 | 6,611 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.75d4272 | 2026-08-20 | 75d4272 | 6,341 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260331.b5e1717 | 2026-03-31 | b5e1717 | 2,288 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260331.653d185 | 2026-03-31 | 653d185 | 2,153 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7382 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
soulmachine/skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ka4icv5qagzth23j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=soulmachine/skills/ghostty-terminfo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dc93f6eaad603a7349b934afa491b6c4e79ee538eb6c9f3f1b6f3455f72e6c3d
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.