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Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

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Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tested out just about every tool like this, and ended up coding my own, it is really minimal though. 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. Tm…

In your experience using your plugin (and the other tools that do something similar like herdr), does it make doing a larger volume of work feel more manageable? In my experience thus far, surfacing/managing session state is only part of the issue, context switching between them is another entirely and feels like the real productivity bottleneck for me

You're spot on here.

If you're truly multi-tasking with this type of setup it feels more like "tiktok coding", "brainrot coding", or any other term that should be used for it.

I'm pretty sure we're moving away from it, the agent you interact with via voice or typing will go to a higher and higher abstraction level, and you won't have to effectively micro-manage them.

Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#72
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tested out just about every tool like this, and ended up coding my own, it is really minimal though. 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. Tm…

This looks nice, but I think a screenshot or three in the README would help bring it to life better

Great input. Added a screenshot to the readme:

https://github.com/Ymirke/tmux-agent-switcher

Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#73
post #28

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…

I've tested out just about every tool like this, and ended up coding my own, it is really minimal though. 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. Tm…

Please continue developing this I’m sick of all these one-offs that escape the mature good tooling we already have.

Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#74
post #28

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…

I've tested out just about every tool like this, and ended up coding my own, it is really minimal though. 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. Tm…

> The way to solve for this is to have them work on two different worktrees with separate environments, ports

What are you using for the environment part? Containers?

Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#76
post #11

How does this compare to something like herdr which does all of this? https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr

I started using herdr last night, and was able to get a workflow I've wanted to set up for a while working, which is to be able to talk to a managing agent in my car and check on / update claude sessions. It uses Telnyx SIP and LiveKit cloud, and I'm using Qwen3.6 35B-A3B quite successfully as the voice layer router. It's still very early but it works quite well.

If you decide to try it out, please make sure to read the security implications. There is no sandboxing added as of yet, and guardrails are pretty minimal.

https://github.com/jonesy827/mate

Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#78
post #11

How does this compare to something like herdr which does all of this? https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr

I tried herdr recently, and I missed many tmux features I really liked. tmux has a better `prefix-[` mode where you 1) can do visual selection using line/block mode 2) you can use `o` to switch to other side (just like vim) 3) it pauses/freezes the state of the output so you have time to capture In herdr, its very basic and incomplete if you're a vim/nvim/tmux power user. And if you're in a TUI that shows some text a…

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Re: Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

#80
post #64

As I was traveling by trains and planes with finicky internet I started using mosh + tmux + Tailscale + VPs to run my agents Curious how herdr or agent-manager fits into this remote-dev with intermittent connections experience

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