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Build terminal UIs with ratatui following 2026 Rust best practices. Use when: (1) Creating new TUI apps, (2) Adding widgets/layouts, (3) Keyboard navigation/state management, (4) Image integration via ratatui-image, (5) Async event handling, (6) Release optimization. Covers v0.30.0+ API, Elm Architecture, StatefulWidget, color-eyre.
Build terminal user interfaces (TUIs) in Rust with Ratatui (v0.30). Use this skill whenever working with the ratatui crate for creating interactive terminal applications, including: (1) Setting up a new Ratatui project, (2) Creating or modifying terminal UI layouts, (3) Implementing widgets (lists, tables, charts, text, gauges, etc.), (4) Handling keyboard/mouse input and events, (5) Structuring TUI application architecture (TEA, component-based, or monolithic patterns), (6) Writing custom widgets, (7) Managing application state in a TUI context, (8) Terminal setup/teardown and panic handling, (9) Testing TUI rendering with TestBackend. Also triggers for questions about crossterm event handling in a Ratatui context, tui-input, tui-textarea, or any ratatui-* ecosystem crate.
Comprehensive guide for the ratkit Rust TUI component library built on ratatui 0.29, including feature flags, APIs, and implementation patterns. Use when building, debugging, or extending ratkit applications and examples.
Expert guidance for Rust CLI and TUI development with official examples from clap, inquire, and ratatui libraries. Use when building command-line interfaces, terminal user interfaces, or console applications in Rust. Provides structured patterns, best practices, and real code implementations from official sources.
Critically review terminal user interfaces for UX quality, responsiveness, visual design, and interactivity. Use when asked to "review my TUI", "test my TUI UX", "audit my terminal UI", "check TUI responsiveness", "review TUI keybindings", "check interactivity", or any request to evaluate the user experience quality of a ratatui/crossterm/ncurses-based terminal application. Launches the TUI in tmux, systematically tests 10 dimensions (responsiveness, input conflicts, visual clarity, navigation, feedback loops, error states, layout, keyboard design, permission flows, visual design & color), and produces a graded report with screenshots and specific findings. Benchmarks against Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex — the three best-in-class AI terminal UIs.
This skill should be used when designing terminal user interfaces, creating TUI layouts, choosing TUI color schemes, implementing keyboard navigation, building terminal dashboards, or working with any TUI framework. Activates on mentions of TUI design, terminal UI, Ratatui layout, Ink components, Textual widgets, Bubbletea views, terminal color palette, keybinding design, panel layout, split panes, terminal dashboard, box-drawing characters, sparklines, progress bars, modal dialogs, focus management, or terminal accessibility.
Use when building CLI tools. Keywords: CLI, command line, terminal, clap, structopt, argument parsing, subcommand, interactive, TUI, ratatui, crossterm, indicatif, progress bar, colored output, shell completion, config file, environment variable, 命令行, 终端应用, 参数解析
Explore and analyze TUI applications to document their features for cloning. Use when asked to reverse-engineer, analyze, document, or understand a terminal UI like Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, lazygit, or any ratatui/ncurses-based application. Launches the target TUI in tmux, systematically explores all views and keybindings, captures ASCII diagrams of each screen, and writes findings incrementally to a markdown file (survives context compaction).
Test CLI applications interactively using tmux sessions. Use when testing TUI apps (ratatui dashboard, interactive prompts), verifying CLI command output, testing keyboard navigation, or validating terminal rendering. Launches commands in tmux, waits on conditions (never sleeps), captures frames, sends keypresses, and asserts on output. Specifically designed for gpu-cli but works with any CLI. Use this skill when asked to test, verify, or QA any terminal-based UI or CLI command flow.