Terminal Tools Foundations

Terminal Tools Foundations is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by aden-hive in hive.

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Install Terminal Tools Foundations

Copy Terminal Tools Foundations into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_preset_skills/terminal-tools-foundations ~/.claude/skills/terminal-tools-foundations

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: core/framework/skills/_preset_skills/terminal-tools-foundations/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/terminal-tools-foundations
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Terminal Tools Foundations does

Terminal Tools Foundations teaches agents how shell tools behave: foreground/background auto-promotion, output handles, semantic exit codes, destructive warnings, and the bash-only policy. Use it whenever shell tools are available to avoid misreading grep exit 1 or losing truncated output.

Terminal Tools Foundations is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Terminal Tools Foundations comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

terminal-tools — foundations

These tools give you a real terminal: foreground exec with smart envelopes, background jobs with offset-based log streaming, persistent PTY shells, and filesystem search. Bash-only on POSIX.

Tool preference (read first)

The terminal is your file system: reading, writing, editing, and searching files all go through terminal-tools. Reach for a higher-level tool only where it clearly fits (browser, web search). Terminal tools default their cwd/path to your session workdir when you omit it — relative paths Just Work; pass an absolute path to operate elsewhere.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Terminal Tools Foundations

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Terminal Tools Foundations?
Terminal Tools Foundations is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from aden-hive/hive, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Background Job Control, Browser Edge Cases and Chart Creation Foundations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Terminal Tools Foundations does, and is maintained by aden-hive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the aden-hive/hive page.
How does Terminal Tools Foundations compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Terminal Tools Foundations ranks #377 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Terminal Tools Foundations against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.