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Fork Terminal Skill

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Fork a terminal to a new window for quick tasks.

Software Engineering#automation#Claude Code#terminal#shell#fork-terminal#agentic-tools
Authororakitine
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill lets you spawn a separate terminal window to run commands or agentic tools in isolation, enabling multitasking without losing your current context.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Raw CLI forks: Open a new terminal to run commands like ffmpeg, curl, python, or docker without interrupting your main session.
  • Agentic tool forks: Launch Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, or other agents in a dedicated terminal, with optional context handoff summaries for continued work.
  • Deterministic workflows: When paired with the provided cookbook, the Skill constructs the exact command to execute and ensures results appear in the new window.
  • Context handling: If you request a summary for an agent, the fork system can prepare a short conversation history for the agent.

Quick Start

Use the fork-terminal skill to open a new terminal window running a task like:

  • fork terminal use claude code to fix tests
  • or fork terminal to run ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx output.webm

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

💻 Claude Code Installation

Recommended: Let Claude install automatically. Simply copy and paste the text below to Claude Code.

Please help me install this Skill:
Name: Fork Terminal Skill
Download link: https://github.com/orakitine/claude-code-lab/archive/main.zip#fork-terminal-skill

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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