Terminal replica

Terminal-like graphics must match the real tool and the real setup of the person who ships the asset. A generic green-on-black "hacker terminal" reads as fake. This skill is a method for capturing your own setup, plus a render recipe and a worked example.

Method

1. Capture the ground truth. Take a fresh screenshot of your real terminal running the tool. Sample background, foreground and accent colors from it with an eyedropper or PIL.Image.getpixel. A live screenshot beats any spec in this file.
2. Record these five facts about your setup:
   • Emulator (Terminal.app, iTerm2, Warp, the VS Code integrated terminal, Ghostty).
   • Font family and size. Check the emulator's settings. VS Code on macOS defaults to Menlo 12.
   • Theme: background, default foreground, and the 16 ANSI colors.
   • Shell prompt shape (for example user@host ~ % for default macOS zsh, or your powerline or starship layout).
   • Statusline format, if your agent has a custom one.
3. Use your own session logs for transcript shapes. Claude Code stores them at ~/.claude/projects/<project-slug>/*.jsonl. The assistant and tool-use turns show exactly what text appears.
4. Draw from those facts, then verify by placing the render next to a real screenshot before you publish.

Keep a small config in your own project (a JSON or Python dict) holding the five facts, and read it from your render scripts. Do not hardcode them in shared code.

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