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name: tui-design-skill description: | Designs clean, professional terminal UIs and CLIs across four ecosystems: Go (Bubble Tea/ Lipgloss), Rust (Ratatui), Python (Textual), and TypeScript (Ink). Covers layout patterns, color systems, keybinding conventions, and framework-specific design patterns. triggers:

• "TUI design"
• "terminal UI"
• "Bubble Tea"
• "Ratatui"
• "Textual Python"
• "Ink TypeScript"
• "tui-design-skill" das: category: tui-terminal upstream: "https://github.com/gfargo/tui-design-skill" version: latest install: false

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tui-design-skill

Catalogue stub — full package: gfargo/tui-design-skill

Decision tree

1. Is the package already installed? Check: ~/.design-agent-skills/skills/tui-design-skill/SKILL.md exists.

   • Yes → invoke tui-design-skill and proceed
   • No → go to step 2

2. Do you have shell access?

   • Yes → run the install command below, then invoke the skill
   • No → show the install command; in Claude Code, send it as a chat message starting with ! — add -g for global install or omit for project-only

Install command

/plugin marketplace add gfargo/tui-design-skill

Invoke after install

• Skill name: tui-design-skill
• Trigger phrases: "TUI design", "terminal UI", "Bubble Tea", "Ratatui", "Textual Python", "Ink TypeScript"

What it does

Provides design knowledge for building professional terminal user interfaces across four major ecosystems: Go with Bubble Tea and Lipgloss for component-based TUIs, Rust with Ratatui for high-performance terminal apps, Python with Textual for rich TUI applications, and TypeScript/Node.js with Ink for React-style terminal rendering. Covers terminal color systems (true color, 256-color, ANSI), layout composition patterns, keybinding conventions, focus management, and framework-specific component design.

When NOT to use

• Web UI design — use a frontend-design skill instead
• When you need a specific framework without TUI layout conventions (the skill adds opinionated design patterns)
• Simple CLI argument parsing without interactive UI