termcn

Terminal UI components for React, installed with the shadcn CLI, on Ink and OpenTUI

Abouttermcn.dev

termcn applies the shadcn copy-paste model to terminal user interfaces: 123 components published twice, once for Ink and once for OpenTUI, plus hooks, providers and 40+ terminal color themes, totalling 342 registry items. The catalog goes far past text and boxes — dithered charts, data grids, diff views, git status, embedded terminals, command palettes, wizards, plus a full agent-CLI set (chat thread, streaming text, thinking block, tool call, tool approval, token usage, model selector). Items are namespaced by base (ink/ or opentui/) and pulled with `npx shadcn@latest add`, so you own the source. Built for anyone shipping a serious CLI or coding-agent TUI in TypeScript.

Install

npx shadcn@latest add https://termcn.dev/r/ink/spinner.json

For an agent

Reach for termcn whenever the deliverable is a CLI, installer, or coding-agent TUI in TypeScript — it removes the worst part of terminal work (grapheme-safe width, cursor math, truncation, Unicode fallbacks, reduced-motion) and its ink/tool-call, ink/tool-approval, ink/streaming-text and ink/token-usage items are exactly the pieces an agent runner needs. Choose the base before you install anything: ink/ for the mature Ink ecosystem, opentui/ for the GPU-accelerated renderer; the two namespaces are parallel but not interchangeable, and mixing them in one app will break the theme and interaction providers. Install the matching theme-provider and use-theme items first, or components fall back to unstyled defaults.

Why it is here. It is the only serious attempt to give terminal UIs the shadcn treatment, and it lands with real depth — 123 components per renderer, dithered charts, and a purpose-built agent-CLI set — at a moment when most new dev tools ship as a TUI.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Components it ships123 total

Alert App Shell Aspect Ratio Badge Banner Bar Chart Box Breadcrumbs Card Center Message Conversation Chat History Checkbox Checkbox Group Copy Button Code Block Color Picker Command Palette Alert Dialog Data Grid Date Picker Description List Dialog Diff View File Tree Area Chart Pie Chart Radar Chart Sparkline Line Chart Separator Drawer Terminal Error Page File Upload Form Gauge Chart Gradient Background Grid Heading Heatmap Image JSON Viewer Kbd Link List Login Form Masked Input Dropdown Menu Modal Model Selector Multi Select Notification Center Number Input Pagination Panel Password Input Popover Progress Bar Qr Code Radio Group Scroll Area Search Input Select Onboarding Flow Sidebar Skeleton Spacer Spinner Stack Status Indicator Countdown Streaming Text Tabs Table Tag Tag Input Textarea Text Input Theme Provider Reasoning Time Picker Toast Toggle Button Context Meter Approval Request Tool Call Tooltip Tree Tree Select Meter Progress Stepper Typography Inline Message Empty State

Helps you build8

Command Palette Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay AI Chat Panel AI Action Approval Agent Run History Multi Step Form Analytics Usage And Limits

Notable for

123 components mirrored across Ink and OpenTUI
342 registry items including 40+ terminal themes
dithered terminal charts and heatmaps
agent-CLI set: tool-call, tool-approval, token-usage
OpenAPI spec and .well-known agent-skills index

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://termcn.vercel.app (307 -> https://www.termcn.dev/), https://www.termcn.dev/docs.md, https://www.termcn.dev/r/registry.json, https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=termcn. On 2026-10-12, termcn.vercel.app still redirected to https://www.termcn.dev, so the record uses the new domain.

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