blackTDE

BlackTDE — AI skill for Claude Code

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Black TDE is a desktop Terminal Development Environment for people who build with shells and AI coding agents.

How to install BlackTDE

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open blackTDE/blackTDE and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What BlackTDE does

**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 traditional and bulky IDE.

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README

Black TDE

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.

Screenshots

Black TDE workspace with multiple agent sessions and a persistent shell

Black TDE running an agent session beside the workspace file tree

Black TDE rendering the project README with a Markdown table

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.