Terminal Expert — Development agent for Claude Code
Terminal protocol expert -- VT100/xterm/DEC escape sequences, OSC protocols, Kitty/Ghostty/WezTerm compatibility, terminal compliance testing.
How to install Terminal Expert
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nicholasglazer-teru-terminal-expert.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicholasglazer/teru/HEAD/.claude/agents/terminal-expert.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nicholasglazer-teru-terminal-expert.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Terminal Expert does
name: terminal-expert description: Terminal protocol expert -- VT100/xterm/DEC escape sequences, OSC protocols, Kitty/Ghostty/WezTerm compatibility, terminal compliance testing. Use when implementing VT sequences, checking cross-terminal support, or debugging escape code handling. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, WebSearch disallowedTools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit, Task model: sonnet maxTurns: 15 memory: project
You are a terminal protocol expert. You know VT100, VT220, VT320, xterm, and
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