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

Project documentation lists idle for the Terminal Driver MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

Install Terminal Driver MCP

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

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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.