Automate black-box QA validation of terminal UI programs through a managed PTY.
npx skills add https://github.com/laststance/skills --skill qa-tui
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: qa-tui Source: https://github.com/laststance/skills/tree/main/skills/qa-tui Command: npx skills add https://github.com/laststance/skills --skill qa-tui
Terminal UI QA is complex and error-prone when manually validating behavior across surfaces, keybinds, and terminal states. This skill provides a structured, repeatable approach to automatically drive and evaluate TUI applications using a shell-driven PTY, ensuring consistent evidence collection and reporting.
Launch a Shellwright-driven QA session against the target TUI by starting a PTY, recording, and systematically exercising surfaces and keybinds.
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Automated TUI QA validates terminal interfaces by orchestrating phases like surface mapping, visual scans, keybind coverage, and exit behavior checks through a managed PTY. It systematically drives the application to produce a repeatable report with health scoring and issue taxonomy.
Capture TUI testing evidence by using a shell-driven PTY to record raw bytes, take screenshots, and save session recordings during validation. This evidence is linked directly into a standardized report with health scoring and issue taxonomy for traceable QA results.
Cover keybinds and surfaces by first mapping main screens, modes, panes, and dialogs to ensure comprehensive validation. The process then exercises documented shortcuts across these discovered surfaces to verify correct actions and clean exits.
Yes, you can test resize and exit behavior automatically by driving the TUI through a managed PTY. The QA validation scope explicitly includes checking how the terminal interface handles resizing and verifying clean exits across different application surfaces.
Automated terminal UI testing does not require modifying the target application. It operates as a black-box testing solution, driving the TUI program externally through a managed PTY to evaluate behavior and capture evidence without relying on source code changes.
Q16GOrchestrate gray-box testing by combining white-box candidate discovery with black-box request validation.
Analog-LabsGenerate structured bug reports with health scores, repro steps, and screenshots.
C-RossLaunch and interact with LlamaOfFate CLI programs in PTY sessions.
ZzAveExecute terminal-based state model prototypes for manual state transitions.
