Best agent skills for terminal and shell
We found 678 agent skills for terminal and shell in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. ci-watch, cmux and global-agent-guardrails lead it. resend-cli is published by the company that makes it. ci-watch comes from the largest repository here (4,417 stars). 15 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 678
- 1ci-watch
nubjs
Watch GitHub Actions CI correctly with the gh CLI — block until a run / PR check rollup is TRULY terminal, then trust the exit code.
- Largest repository here (4,417 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.4KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2cmux
davidondrej
Control the cmux macOS terminal app: workspaces, panes, surfaces, browsers, notifications, settings, and hooks.
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3global-agent-guardrails
davidondrej
Configure the shared guard against catastrophic shell commands in local AI agents.
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4resend-cli
resendOfficial
Operate the Resend platform from the terminal — send emails (including React Email .tsx templates via --react-email), manage domains, contacts, broadcasts…
- Published by the vendor
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 205Last active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5cli-design
caarlos0
Design and review command-line interfaces for usability, automation, safety, accessibility, and long-term compatibility.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 224Last active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6tui-design
caarlos0
Design terminal user interfaces and interactive CLIs that stay usable, accessible, and scriptable.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 224Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7building-glamorous-tuis
Dicklesworthstone
Build terminal UIs with Charmbracelet (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Gum).
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 207Last active Oct 3, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8tlgr
tlgrcli
Read and act on a personal Telegram account from the terminal with the tlgr CLI (MTProto user account, not a bot).
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 197Last active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9doca-pcc-counters
NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>
Use this skill when the user is invoking the DOCA PCC Counters tool — the `pcc_counters.sh` bash script under the DOCA tools directory — to arm and read the…
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10doca-telemetry-utils
NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>
doca_telemetry_utils command line on a host with DOCA: discover the diagnostic-counter schema, translate counter names to binary Data IDs and back, and check…
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11in-context-action-learning
robot-agent-exploration
Infer task goals and a useful strategy from visual demonstrations (an image sequence of a human or robot completing the task, or a terminal-state image), and…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 184Last active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12shellck
instructa
Run shellcheck on shell scripts after editing scripts or when debugging shell errors.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
- For bash
★ 139Last active Oct 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13terminal-title
bluzername
Automatically updates the terminal window title to reflect the current high-level task.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
- For bash
★ 143Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14tmux
gebruder
Manage tmux terminal sessions
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 192Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 15wiki
plasma-ai
Indexed knowledge bases with command-line tools for agents.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 106Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet