rhynelabs

Sidebar Terminal — Design skill for Claude Code

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Run Claude Code, Codex and other terminal agents beside your Obsidian notes, with native tabs and tmux-style splits.

How to install Sidebar Terminal

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

What Sidebar Terminal does

Run Claude Code, Codex and other terminal agents beside your Obsidian notes, with native tabs and tmux-style splits.

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README

Sidebar Terminal

AI agents, right inside Obsidian.

Run **Claude Code, Codex and other terminal agents** beside your notes. Keep your research, project plans and agent sessions in one workspace.

![Claude Code above Codex, beside an Obsidian note](docs/images/workspace.png)

[Install](#install) · [Usage](docs/usage.md) · [Shortcuts](docs/usage.md#keyboard-shortcuts) · [Development](docs/development.md)

Work with agents beside your notes

Ask an agent to work with your notes while you keep the outline open. Give each project its own terminal tab, or split a tab to run several tools side by side. Presets launch your installed CLIs; when a tool exits, the shell stays open for the next command.

Need a script, a Git command or an ordinary shell? Those work here too.

Built for Obsidian

Native tabs and splits. Open several terminals as Obsidian tabs and split them right or down. Switching tabs keeps their jobs running.
Your shell. Starts your configured interactive shell with its prompt, aliases and startup files.
Presets. Launch an installed CLI in a new tab. When it exits, you are back in the same shell.
Split with a shortcut. ⌘ D splits right; ⌘ Shift D splits down. Resize with a drag, or use the optional tmux-style prefix. All shortcuts →
Theme-aware. Background, text and selection follow your Obsidian theme. Explicit RGB colors from TUI programs are shown unchanged.

Rendering uses xterm.js with bundled JetBrains Mono.

Settings screenshot

![Preset editor, appearance, keyboard and advanced settings in Obsidian](docs/images/settings.png)