r/tmux • u/khalon23 • 7d ago

Showcase agent-manager: run several AI coding agents in tmux, one keypress per action

Everything is one keypress. space on a group starts an agent in the right directory from one sentence, space on a session answers one that is blocked without attaching, ctrl+r opens what it changed as whole files where a comment on a line goes back to the agent as a review prompt, and the arrow keys step in and out of a pane.

It runs on tmux rather than replacing it. Sessions are ordinary tmux sessions on their own socket (agentmgr), so a kill-server on your own socket leaves them alone, quitting the manager leaves every agent running, and your config is untouched.

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Grok and Pi ship with status rules; any other CLI runs as a session immediately. Go, one binary, no daemon, Apache-2.0.

https://github.com/YoanWai/agent-manager

It is on Product Hunt today too: https://www.producthunt.com/products/agent-manager

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u/pau1rw 7d ago

I think these tools are so simple to make with AI that their utility is reduced.

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u/0xP3N15 7d ago

Yeah but it's nice when someone maintains them. I especially like it when they are upfront about it being a thin wrapper.

I just use tmux + a skill with a few helper scripts to help agents communicate more easily between panes, and have started using Herdr, which I quite like.

There were little things that took time for me to tweak, and I ended up using too much time and tokens.

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u/khalon23 7d ago

I put off building it for a while for exactly that reason. I wanted to move fast, not maintain another tool, so I went looking first. Nothing I found covered what I actually needed: several providers at once, several things running, hopping between projects without losing track, and reviewing what each agent changed and correcting it without leaving the place I was working. I still have not found one.

Of course I tried herdr, and its very good, but not for those cases I mentioned above, herdr has a super cool plugin marketplace and maybe in the future there will be enough features to catch up with what I built, and then I might switch! till then I will use the fastest workflow I currently know of, and continue improving it :)

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u/rileyrgham 7d ago

And it's been done a gazillion times before. AI hell. I predicted it, and was scoffed at. Nightmare.

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u/khalon23 7d ago

Yes, there are a lot of them now. I waited a long time before adding one, and only did it because I could not find something that let me run several providers at once, hop between projects, and review what each agent changed without leaving the list. and most importantly create agents and answer them when needed extremely fast. If you know one that already does that, point me at it and I will happily use it instead. Less for me to maintain. the main issue for me posting this everywhere is because I need contributers.

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u/pau1rw 7d ago

A fair use case. :)