ape-cli-terminal-experience SKILL.md skillB
ape-cli-terminal-experience from arpitbbhayani/ape-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/ape-cli-terminal-experience@git:20260820.0944a9bPins git:20260820.0944a9b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arpitbbhayani/ape-skills
- Path
ape-cli-terminal-experience/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260820.0944a9b, committed Aug 20, 2026
- Size
- 41,742 bytes
- Repository stars
- 49
- License
- MIT
Designs the terminal experience of a CLI app the way Claude Code does it -- palette, status glyphs, spinners, progress narration, prompts, confirmations, listings, key hints, and full-screen TUI views. Trigger on "ape cli terminal experience", or whenever the task involves printing to a terminal from a CLI: adding or restyling output, adding a spinner or progress indicator, writing a prompt or confirmation, building a TUI, choosing exit codes, or deciding stdout vs stderr. Also trigger on…
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
# CLI Terminal Experience A terminal UI that reads like Claude Code: mostly grey, a few deliberate accents, one line per fact, animation only while something is actually happening, and a plain-text fallback the moment the output stops being a terminal. Every rule below is enforceable and testable. Follow them exactly rather than approximating the vibe. --- ## 1. The two laws **Subtle by default.** Colour marks meaning -- a failure, a value the user will act on -- and nothing else. Labels, units, paths, and chrome are dim; values are plain. A full screen of output should read as mostly grey with a handful of accents, never as a colour test page. If you cannot say what a colour *means*, remove it. **Plain when not a terminal.** Pipe the program anywhere and every escape sequence disappears, glyphs fall back to bracketed ASCII, rules vanish, and the spinner goes silent. Output stays greppable; a script parsing it never sees a byte of styling. Three consequences that people get wrong: - Colour detection and terminal detection are **different questions**. `FORCE_COLOR` should add colour to piped output, but carriage-return redraws still make no sense …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/ape-cli-terminal-experience@sha256:e03982b31f3e96d2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260820.0944a9b, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vyhsot5lwhw6qcdr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl | sh)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (41742 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
arpitbbhayani/ape-skills · 49 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vyhsot5lwhw6qcdr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/ape-cli-terminal-experience GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e03982b31f3e96d25858d4f423ecf1a0567f0d1249d211faed65f04f46ece559
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.