Render Markdown to styled terminal text in Go with Glamour v2 (charm.land/glamour/v2, formerly github.com/charmbracelet/glamour): one shot Render, reusable TermRenderer with word wrap and emoji, built in styles (dark, light, dracula, tokyo-night, pink, ascii), custom StyleConfig in Go or JSON, color downsampling through Lip Gloss, and a scrolling viewer inside Bubble Tea. Use when showing a README, .md file, help text, changelog, or any Markdown in a CLI or TUI, or when asked to pretty-print Markdown in the terminal. Not for editing Markdown or for general styling (charmed-lipgloss).

Write interactive shell scripts with the gum CLI (Charm, charmbracelet): choose, filter, confirm, input, write, file, spin, table, pager, style, join, format, and log, with their flags, exit codes, environment variable defaults, and Bash examples. Use when a Bash or shell script needs a prompt, menu, picker, fuzzy finder, yes or no question, text input, spinner, CSV table, pager, styled output with borders and terminal colors, rendered Markdown, or log lines, without writing Go. Not for Go programs (charmed-huh, charmed-bubbletea).

Use the Bubbles v2 component library (charm.land/bubbles/v2, charmbracelet bubbles) inside a Bubble Tea v2 TUI: list, table, viewport, textinput, textarea, spinner, progress bar, filepicker, tree, paginator, timer, stopwatch, help, and key bindings. Use when adding a ready made widget or TUI component (text input, spinners, scrolling view, file picker) to a terminal app, wiring its focus, size, styles, and messages, or migrating v1 bubbles code. Not for the program loop itself (charmed-bubbletea), raw styling (charmed-lipgloss), or whole forms (charmed-huh).

Build terminal user interfaces (TUI) in Go with Bubble Tea v2 (charm.land/bubbletea/v2, the charmbracelet bubbletea framework) using the Elm architecture Model, Update, View loop, commands for I/O, and declarative tea.View fields for alt screen, mouse, cursor, and title. Use when writing or migrating a Bubble Tea or bubbletea app, handling tea.KeyPressMsg or mouse messages, wiring async work into a TUI, or testing one. Not for ready made widgets (charmed-bubbles), styling (charmed-lipgloss), or forms (charmed-huh).

Map of the Charm (charmbracelet) terminal stack and how the pieces fit: which library to reach for (Bubble Tea, Bubbles, Lip Gloss, Huh, Glamour, Log, Wish, Harmonica) or which CLI (gum, vhs, glow, freeze, mods, crush), the v2 charm.land import paths and pinned versions, the dependency order, how the libraries hand data to each other, and a consolidated v1 to v2 migration checklist. Use when starting a TUI or terminal project in Go, choosing a Go TUI stack, deciding between Charm libraries, or planning a charmbracelet v1 to v2 upgrade. For any single library's API use its own charmed-* skill.

Build terminal forms and interactive prompts in Go with Huh v2 (charm.land/huh/v2, charmbracelet): input, text, password, select, multiselect, confirm, note, and file picker fields grouped into pages, with validation, dynamic fields, themes, accessible mode, and a spinner for follow up work. Use when asking a user questions from a CLI, building a wizard, survey, or yes or no question, either standalone with Run or embedded in a Bubble Tea v2 program. Not for shell scripts (charmed-gum) or free form TUIs (charmed-bubbletea).

Style and lay out terminal text in Go with Lip Gloss v2 (charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charmbracelet): ANSI colors and terminal colors, borders and boxes, padding, alignment, joining and placing blocks, light or dark adaptation, gradients, static tables, trees, lists, and layered overlays. Use when rendering styled strings or pretty terminal output for a TUI or CLI, drawing a bordered box, building a layout from measured blocks, or migrating v1 lipgloss code. Not for the event loop (charmed-bubbletea) or interactive widgets (charmed-bubbles).

Structured, leveled, styled logging in Go with Charm Log v2 (charm.land/log/v2, the charmbracelet logger): package level and custom loggers, key value pairs, levels, text, JSON, and logfmt formatters, colored log output with Lip Gloss v2 styles, slog handler and standard log adapters, and logging from inside a Bubble Tea program to a debug log file. Use when adding, configuring, or restyling Charm Log output in a Go CLI or TUI, or migrating from github.com/charmbracelet/log. Not for other Go loggers such as zap or zerolog, or for printing UI (charmed-lipgloss).

Record terminal demos as a terminal GIF, MP4, or WebM demo video from a .tape text file with vhs (Charm, charmbracelet): tape syntax, Output, Require, Set options (size, font, theme, typing speed, window bar, margin), typing and key commands, Sleep and Wait, Hide and Show, Screenshot, Source, and CI usage. Use when documenting a CLI or TUI with an animated demo, screencast, terminal recording, or screen recording for a README, or asserting its output in tests with golden files. Not for writing the program itself.