Inject keystrokes and read rendered screen output through Zellij sessions.
npx skills add https://github.com/cuipengfei/prompts --skill zellij-control
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: zellij-control Source: https://github.com/cuipengfei/prompts/tree/main/plugins/zellij-control/skills/zellij-control Command: npx skills add https://github.com/cuipengfei/prompts --skill zellij-control
This Skill solves the difficulty of driving interactive terminal programs from an automated or remote environment by letting you send keystrokes and read rendered screen output through Zellij sessions.
Ask the zellij-control skill to start (or use) a Zellij session, type htop, press Enter to launch it, dump the current screen to /dev/shm, and then exit the app by sending q.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
Inject keystrokes into interactive CLI apps via Zellij sessions using the write-chars flow to send exact characters and control keys, enabling automated control of TUI tools and REPLs.
Yes, automate TUI tools like htop, lazygit, and fzf by injecting keystrokes including Enter, ESC, and arrows through Zellij sessions, enabling scripted control over interactive terminal workflows.
Screen dumping captures the terminal's rendered content to a file path in /dev/shm, enabling safe, disk-free observation and parsing of terminal output including optional scrollback.
Yes, Zellij is required as it provides the session action write-chars flow for sending all commands including Enter, and the dump-screen functionality for reading rendered terminal output.
Use Zellij's dump-screen with a /dev/shm path to capture Python or Bun REPL output without disk writes, reading rendered screen content directly from memory for safe observation.
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