# drive-check

Replays keystrokes inside a throwaway Claude Code terminal session to catch layout, focus, and option-saving bugs without touching user settings.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 202
- Author: NahumLitvin
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/NahumLitvin/prismantis/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/drive-check

## What it does

The skill runs `drive.sh` to initialize an isolated `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`. It feeds key combinations such as arrows, Tab, Enter, and Esc into a hidden terminal using defined pauses. Each step waits for a set interval. At the end, the tool outputs the saved options and writes a PNG screenshot of the terminal state.

Standard inline plugins loaded via `--plugin-dir` lack `/config` entries, causing `$.config.set` to fail when Enter is pressed. To prevent errors, `drive.sh` installs the mod from a local marketplace instead. It also clears `CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS` automatically.

Grep checks fail on raw terminal output because ANSI color sequences split words apart. Reviewing the generated PNG image is necessary. Re-run the setup step after each edit to copy changes into the test environment.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NahumLitvin/prismantis --skill drive-check -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/drive-check/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NahumLitvin/prismantis --skill drive-check -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NahumLitvin/prismantis --skill drive-check -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install NahumLitvin/prismantis drive-check
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NahumLitvin/prismantis --skill drive-check -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/NahumLitvin/prismantis --path .claude/skills/drive-check
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add NahumLitvin/prismantis --skill drive-check -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/NahumLitvin/prismantis/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- test terminal navigation and keypresses in automated runs
- verify `$.config.set` writes without polluting personal configs
- detect focus traps across terminal dimensions like 80x24 and 120x45
- verify right-to-left Hebrew rendering via `/prismantis demo-rtl`

## Example prompts
- Prepare the test harness by running `.claude/skills/drive-check/drive.sh setup .`
- Simulate menu navigation in an 80x24 terminal and inspect saved options
- Run the `drive.sh` scenario to test RTL layout rendering

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: drive-check
description: Drive an interactive prismantis surface (the setup pane, buttons, anything with keys or Enter) like a person would, in a real Claude Code session, and look for bugs. Use before merging a change to panes, buttons, focus or saved options, or when asked to "try it", "click through it", "test the menu", "look for bugs".
---

# Drive check

`live-check` shows how a reply draws. This one presses keys. It installs the working copy into a throwaway Claude Code config, so Enter can save options without touching yours, then replays a list of keys in a hidden terminal and renders the result.

## Setup, once per working copy

```bash
.claude/skills/drive-check/drive.sh setup <repo or worktree path>
```

Run it again after every edit: it copies the code into the install.

Three traps it handles, each found the hard way:

- **Your real config:** Enter saves through `$.config.set`. The throwaway `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` takes the writes.
- **`--plugin-dir`:** an inline plugin has no `/config` rows, so `$.config.set` throws and a press looks dead. The script installs from a local marketplace instead.
- **`CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_DIRS`:** if your shell sets it, it loads that checkout over the install. The script unsets it.

## Run a scenario

```bash
.claude/skills/drive-check/drive.sh <name> <cols> <rows> '[[12,"/prismantis setup"],[2,"\r"],[8,"\u001b[B"],[1,"\r"],[5,""]]'
```

Steps are `[seconds to wait, keys to type]`. Keys: Down `\u001b[B`, Up `\u001b[A`, Tab `\t`, Enter `\r`, Esc `\u001b`. It prints the PNG path and the options that got saved. Read the PNG; do not grep the capture for words, color codes split them.

## What to try

Every interactive change, at 120×45, 110×40 and 80×24:

1. Open it, move, Enter: did the right value save, and did it move on?
2. A pick that **changes** a value: saving reloads the mod. Is the next step shown, with focus on its current value?
3. Walk every step changing each one, and check every saved value against the keys pressed.
4. Esc halfway: earlier picks kept, pane closed.
5. Open it again while it is open, and again after it closed.
6. The smallest size: do arrows still move focus, or do they only scroll?
7. Then `/prismantis demo-rtl`, every Hebrew line read right to left.

Write each bug as keys, size, expected, got. That is the repro the author needs.
````
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© NahumLitvin · MIT · https://github.com/NahumLitvin/prismantis/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/drive-check/SKILL.md

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