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Can someone who uses one of these agent-specific multiplexers share their experience and reasoning for reaching for / building these? What makes this better than a normal multiplexer? I am asking in earnest; I just don’t understand but I want to.
“How does this differ from”… For all of these tools, now, there are many. After I built my own agent sandboxer[0] I went so far as to create a site dedicated to 36 other similar projects / approaches: https://pleasedonotescape.com/ 0: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/byre
I had the problem of crashing terminals due to OOM kills and wanted to switch to a more lightweight terminal. Also I had too many of them and couldn't find the right one any more.
I thought, why not build one yourself. The result:
https://github.com/ThePixelPilgrim/kabelsalat
It has GTK tabbed, (almost) transparently tmux-backed terminals (so quitting or crashing the app and starting it up again restores the state) in colored, named groups.
I recently added Wayland app embedding to run Chrome side by side with the terminal, local to each group, but this is still a bit shaky.
Would be nice if someone would test drive it and give me some feedback. :)
How is this different from https://github.com/asheshgoplani/agent-deck ?
These types of responses are always so low value, they should be auto filtered out. How is Claude Code different than Codex, how is x different from y, etc. Read the repo and figure it our for yourself, good grief.
There seem to be a lot of these sorts of tools popping up but it’s not clear to me the added value they bring in over using plain tmux (or any other “normal” session multiplexer). Can someone who uses one of these agent-specific multiplexers share their experience and reasoning for reaching for / building these? What makes this better than a normal multiplexer? I am asking in earnest; I just don’t understand but I wa…
This looks really good, but for me the timing of seeing agent-manager is bad: I read about the similar Herdr on HN several days ago and I have completely changed my dev setup for the better. I have always been a traditional simple command line tool kind of developer (I am an old man, old habbits die hard!) but I recommend at least a one day experiment with tools like agent-manager and/or Herdr that integrate tools li…
There seem to be a lot of these sorts of tools popping up but it’s not clear to me the added value they bring in over using plain tmux (or any other “normal” session multiplexer). Can someone who uses one of these agent-specific multiplexers share their experience and reasoning for reaching for / building these? What makes this better than a normal multiplexer? I am asking in earnest; I just don’t understand but I wa…
The primary reason people reach for these tools are two to three reasons:
1. Tmux does not natively show agent statuses of agents / notify you when one needs input. Helpful when you have a huge list of small things to fix: I just spin up N agents in parallel to handle all of them, then I go over and review.
2. Tmux does not handle worktree handling. If you wanna make changes in parallel you cannot have two agents make db migrations at the same time. The way to solve for this is to have them work on two different worktrees with separate environments, ports etc.
3. Tmux tree view is not super beautiful, especially for viewing agents.
I built this as a tmux plugin since I don't really want to opt-out of tmux as a whole, especially since I like my keybindings there.
Finding it a bit wild that I've been working on something somewhat similar for a few weeks now.
I too built my own equivalent of this (belfry.robgough.net). I take it as a good thing, we're all using these tools and coming to similar conclusions.
I suspect over time it'll settle down, once we've gotten comfortable with the new ways of working and found the new normal.