ape-cli-terminal-experience

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By arpitbbhayani/ape-skills (GitHub) · coding · 57 stars · scanned at commit db7ad93

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 casua…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

ape-cli-terminal-experience/SKILL.md, line 125! npx not found on PATH Node.js is required for `skills` -- https://nodejs.org
ape-cli-terminal-experience/SKILL.md, line 375**EOF on a prompt.** Piped stdin, CI, cron, `curl | sh`. This is the most-missed case in
ape-cli-terminal-experience/SKILL.md, line 1002| A prompt with no `--yes` path | Breaks CI, cron, and `curl \| sh` |

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ape-cli-terminal-experience already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/arpitbbhayani/ape-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'db7ad939cc944eb71f61790a72b9a0d79008d226' -- 'ape-cli-terminal-experience' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' ~/.agents/skills/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' ~/.claude/skills/'ape-cli-terminal-experience' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`db7ad93`	85