idle

MCP tool from Terminal Driver MCP by funkyfunc

/ stablescreen — output goes quiet / the rendered text stops changing for idlems. Best-effort: continuously-animating UIs (spinners, progress bars, htop) never settle, so these run to timeout — which still returns the current screen, plus a hint to switch to a pattern wait.

How to use it

idle is exposed by the Terminal Driver MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the idle tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Terminal Driver MCP

$claude mcp add terminal --scope user -- npx -y terminal-driver-mcp

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Other tools in Terminal Driver MCP (3)

exit

the session's process terminates (after :q, ctrl+d, …).

pattern

(default) — a regex appears on screen: the reliable primitive when you know what you're waiting for.

pattern_gone

the regex stops matching: wait for a spinner/dialog/just-deleted row to clear without racing the redraw.