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Imported from terminalskills/skills (skills/ora/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add terminalskills/skills --skill ora. Copyright stays with the author (Apache-2.0).

Ora

Name: ora
Author: terminalskills

Overview

Ora creates elegant terminal spinners. Show progress during async operations (API calls, file processing, builds), then succeed/fail with a final status. Used by create-next-app, Vercel CLI, Angular CLI.

Instructions

Step 1: Basic Spinner

import ora from 'ora'

const spinner = ora('Installing dependencies...').start()

try {
  await exec('npm install')
  spinner.succeed('Dependencies installed')
} catch (err) {
  spinner.fail('Installation failed')
  process.exit(1)
}

Step 2: Multi-Step Operations

async function deploy(env: string) {
  const spinner = ora()

  spinner.start('Building project...')
  await build()
  spinner.succeed('Build complete')

  spinner.start('Running tests...')
  const results = await runTests()
  spinner.succeed(`${results.passed} tests passed`)

  spinner.start(`Deploying to ${env}...`)
  const url = await deployToCloud(env)
  spinner.succeed(`Deployed to ${url}`)

  spinner.start('Verifying deployment...')
  await healthCheck(url)
  spinner.succeed('Deployment verified ✓')
}

Step 3: With Other Libraries

import ora from 'ora'
import chalk from 'chalk'

const spinner = ora({
  text: 'Processing files...',
  color: 'cyan',
  spinner: 'dots',       // or 'line', 'arc', 'bouncingBar'
})

spinner.start()
spinner.text = `Processing ${chalk.bold('image-001.png')}...`
// ... after processing
spinner.text = `Processing ${chalk.bold('image-002.png')}...`

spinner.stopAndPersist({
  symbol: chalk.green('✓'),
  text: `Processed ${chalk.bold('42')} files in ${chalk.gray('3.2s')}`,
})

Guidelines

succeed() / fail() / warn() / info() stop the spinner with a status icon.
stopAndPersist() for custom symbols/text when the built-in statuses don't fit.
Update spinner.text during long operations to show progress.
Ora is ESM-only since v6. Use import ora from 'ora'.
In CI environments, ora falls back to static text (no animation).

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/terminalskills-skills-ora/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

terminalskills-skills-ora.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "terminalskills-skills-ora",
  "kind": "skill",
  "name": "ora",
  "description": "Add terminal spinners with Ora. Use when showing loading indicators in CLI tools, displaying progress during async operations, or building polished command-line interfaces with status feedback.",
  "publisher": "terminalskills",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "skill-md",
      "ora",
      "cli",
      "spinner",
      "loading",
      "terminal",
      "skills-sh"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Add terminal spinners with Ora. Use when showing loading indicators in CLI tools, displaying progress during async operations, or building polished command-line interfaces with status feedback."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "skills.sh",
      "repository": "https://github.com/terminalskills/skills",
      "path": "skills/ora/SKILL.md",
      "ref": "HEAD",
      "url": "https://github.com/terminalskills/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/ora/SKILL.md",
      "key": "terminalskills/skills/skills/ora/SKILL.md"
    },
    "compatibility": "Node.js 16+",
    "license": "Apache-2.0"
  },
  "instructions": "# Ora\n\n## Overview\n\nOra creates elegant terminal spinners. Show progress during async operations (API calls, file processing, builds), then succeed/fail with a final status. Used by create-next-app, Vercel CLI, Angular CLI.\n\n## Instructions\n\n### Step 1: Basic Spinner\n\n```typescript\nimport ora from 'ora'\n\nconst spinner = ora('Installing dependencies...').start()\n\ntry {\n  await exec('npm install')\n  spinner.succeed('Dependencies installed')\n} catch (err) {\n  spinner.fail('Installation failed')\n  process.exit(1)\n}\n```\n\n### Step 2: Multi-Step Operations\n\n```typescript\nasync function deploy(env: st",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 497
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/terminalskills-skills-ora/manifest?version=1.0.0

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