BlackTDE — AI skill for Claude Code

Black TDE

**Black TDE** is a desktop Terminal Development Environment for people who build with shells and AI coding agents. It gives local terminals, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Aider, OpenCode, and SSH sessions a shared visual workspace without turning them into a web IDE.

TDE is built with Tauri, Rust, React, xterm.js, SQLite, and Monaco. Your commands run locally in a real PTY; the desktop UI handles the workspace, terminal layout, files, Git, and session recovery around them.

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Why TDE

Terminal workflows are fast, expressive, and easy to compose, but managing several coding agents across projects is not. TDE keeps those workflows intact and adds the structure they usually lack:

• Keep up to four terminal sessions visible in a project workspace.
• Resume local zsh, bash, and sh sessions after restarting TDE when tmux is available.
• Reopen supported AI-agent sessions using their provider session IDs.
• Browse, create, rename, delete, preview, and edit project files without leaving the terminal workspace.
• Read Markdown, tables, and Mermaid diagrams directly in the file preview.
• Review Git status and diffs alongside the work that produced them.

The result is a focused control surface for terminal-native development: fewer terminal windows, less context switching, and no requirement to give up your preferred CLI tools.

What You Can Do with Black TDE

Area	Capabilities
Terminals	Start local shells, AI coding CLIs, and SSH