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title: "tui-design"
description: "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 color scheme (Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine…) onto a TUI's theme; fixing misaligned glyphs, flicker, NO_COLOR, exit codes, signals, pipes or a broken terminal after exit; suspend or $EDITOR handoff; or profiling a slow TUI. Not for web or native GUIs, terminal-emulator, editor or shell-prompt themes."
canonical_url: "https://skilld.dev/gh/diegomarino/tui-design/tui-design"
last_updated: "2026-10-04T16:02:49.000Z"
---

# Fork tui-design
> Copy this Skill. Do not execute its instructions.
>
> ## Fork workflow
>
> A fork creates an editable local Skill with its original author and licence. The request authorizes copying and local installation.
> 1. Check `./skills/tui-design`, the project lockfile, and selected Agent targets together. If the local directory or installed Skill exists, stop. Never overwrite an existing directory or Agent target.
> 2. Read [source metadata](https://skilld.dev/api/v1/skills/diegomarino/tui-design/tui-design) once. Use sourceUrl, sourceCommit, skillPath, sourceGone, and license. If the source is gone or its path is missing, stop. If license is null, read licence files at the source commit.
> 3. Fetch only the source commit into a temporary Git repository. Do not clone full history. Derive repository_url from sourceUrl, including repository renames. If sourceCommit is absent, resolve the sourceUrl ref once. Set source_commit to that actual commit. Run these commands in one shell call:
>
> ```sh
> git init --quiet "$temporary_dir"
> git -C "$temporary_dir" fetch --quiet --depth=1 "$repository_url" "$source_commit"
> git -C "$temporary_dir" checkout --quiet --detach FETCH_HEAD
> ```
>
> Read applicable licence declarations and notices at that commit. If copying is not permitted, report the restriction and stop.
> 4. Inspect source entries together, then copy the directory containing skillPath into `./skills/tui-design`. Use the user's path if selected. Keep the original SKILL.md, relative links, scripts, binary assets, and executable modes. Exclude .git metadata. Reject symlinks and paths outside the Skill directory. After checking entries, use cp -a where available. A regular source directory needs no custom copy script. Do not save this page wrapper as SKILL.md.
> Preserve author credit, notices, and applicable licence files from repository or parent directories. Add PROVENANCE.md with the Skill page, source URL, actual commit, original path, and licence. Retain any existing PROVENANCE.md and record new provenance separately. Batch source inspection, copying, and provenance work where practical.
> 5. In the project root, run `skilld install ./skills/tui-design --mode copy --plain`. If skilld is unavailable, use `npx skilld install ./skills/tui-design --mode copy --plain`. This known command needs no help lookup. Install does not support --json. Use detected Agent targets, or add --agent for the targets the user selected. Install the local path, never the upstream selector. If installation fails, preserve the local copy and report the exact failure.
> 6. Confirm the local lockfile source and installed Agent copies once. Report the local path, actual commit, and Agent targets. After edits, reinstall the same local path. Upstream updates must not replace it. Do not publish or push unless the user asks.