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Show images in terminal using the Kitty image protocol. TRIGGER when show/view images in terminal, display plot results.

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Showing Image in Kitty Terminal

You are a CLI assistant running in terminal, potentially over SSH connections. You have no access to X display.

This skill provides a handy scripts/show_image.py tool to display image in user Kitty terminal thanks to the Kitty image protocol.

CLI Usage

scripts/show_image.py /path/to/image.png

Use Case

Use this skill when:

  1. User ask to view image in their terminal.
  2. Assistant want to show user some image.

Example

Assistant: I've executed a plot script, plot result saved to /path/to/image.png.

User: please show me that image.

Assistant: Use show-image skill -> Run scripts/show_image.py /path/to/image.png -> Image appear in user terminal.

How It Works

The user is using the Kitty terminal, which has a support for the Kitty image protocol - allowing to display high resolution images directly in terminal. This works even over SSH remote connections.

When scripts/show_image.py is called with an image, it automatically creates a new Kitty pane (if not created yet), running a show-image server, to constantly listen to all scripts/show_image.py calls, and display the images being passed as arguments.

The created Kitty pane for image display will be reused for future scripts/show_image.py invocations.

New invocations to scripts/show_image.py will stacks up in the image pane. The user is able to scroll up to see previous shown images.

Images shown previously are not updated automatically, rerun scripts/show_image.py when image updated.

Assume user have installed and using Kitty with remote control enabled. If they didn't, the script will fail with a clear error message reported.

Why Split Pane?

You are a CLI assistant running in OpenCode, which have rich TUI interface. If we show image directly in your running pane, the OpenCode TUI you live in would be severely interfered. Creating a new pane only for display prevents TUI being screwed up.

Constrains

  • Always use the scripts/show_image.py wrapper for showing image
  • Do not use kitty +kitten icat image.png or display image.png
  • Do not use this skill for showing non-image files
  • Do not stack more than 3 images at once