$ man terminal

Terminal

A text-based interface to your computer where you type commands instead of clicking icons.

by Shawn Tenam

Every skill, every deploy, every script, every package install runs through the terminal. It is the execution layer under everything else. When you type /deploy, git commands run in the terminal. When you run the daily tracker, a Python script executes in the terminal. It looks intimidating but it is just typing commands and reading output.

Open Terminal on Mac (or the integrated terminal in Cursor). Type commands. Read the output. If something errors, read the error message. Most of the time the error tells you exactly what went wrong. The terminal is where everything actually happens.