Terminal Title Management

Terminal Title Management

Overview

This skill updates the terminal window title to show current context:

• Work/fun emoji (from $TERMINAL_TITLE_EMOJI environment variable)
• Project name (intelligently detected by Claude)
• Current topic (what you're working on)

Format: 💼 ProjectName - Topic

CRITICAL: When to Invoke

MANDATORY invocations:

1. Session start: Automatically triggered by SessionStart hook. Claude must respond by setting title to "Claude Code" as default topic.
2. Topic changes: Claude MUST detect and invoke when user shifts to new topic.

Topic change patterns (Claude must detect these):

• ✅ "let's talk about X" / "can you tell me about Y" → invoke immediately
• ✅ User switches domains: debugging → documentation, frontend → backend, feature → tests
• ✅ User starts working on different module/component after sustained discussion
• ✅ User asks about completely unrelated topic after 3+ exchanges on current topic
• ❌ Follow-up questions on same topic ("add a comment to that function") → do NOT invoke
• ❌ Small refinements to current work ("make it blue") → do NOT invoke
• ❌ Clarifications about current task → do NOT invoke

Claude's responsibility: Actively monitor conversation flow and invoke this skill whenever topic materially shifts. Do not wait for explicit permission.

Example titles:

• 💼 Skills Repository - Terminal Title
• 🎉 dotfiles - zsh config
• 💼 OneOnOne - Firebase Config

Setup Requirements

Required Permission: