Zellij Terminal Workspace

**Judgment:** A powerful, fairly mature skill for interactive terminal control via zellij, best used when a real TTY is required (REPLs, interactive CLIs, multi-agent orchestration). It’s overkill for simple one-off commands but very valuable for complex or long-lived interactive workflows. **Key strengths:** - Provides robust session/pane management with zellij, including sending keystrokes and scraping pane output. - Supports structured patterns for monitoring prompts and coordinating multiple concurrent agents. - Uses a dedicated data directory convention to keep state contained and predictable. **Main risks / limitations:** - Requires zellij installed and only works on macOS/Linux; completely unavailable on other platforms. - Allows execution of arbitrary shell commands and control sequences, so it carries the usual terminal-level risk of destructive operations (rm, database changes, etc.). - Operational complexity: sessions, pane IDs, and helper scripts require careful prompting and may be error-prone if mismanaged. **Recommended scenarios:** - When a tool demands an interactive TTY (language REPL, interactive CLI, or TUIs) and cannot be driven reliably via simple exec/background commands. - When orchestrating many concurrent coding agents or long-running interactive tasks that need to stay attached to persistent sessions. - When you need to watch for specific text in output (prompts, completion markers) before sending further input. For simple, non-interactive or fire-and-forget jobs, prefer a basic exec/background skill and reserve this zellij skill for cases where those approaches fail or are clearly inadequate.