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How is this different from sshing into a server and attaching to a tmux session? I don't see the benefits in switching over.

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The primary benefit I've gotten over just a straight tmux session is that there is a collapsable left "tab" bar that shows you your different workspaces, which you can relabel, and below that is a list of the agents you are running (claude code, codex, etc) along with their status (idle, blocked, working).

So I will start a workspace for each different thing I'm working on, label it "Studio Shed Packet", "Teapot game", "Mux experiment". Then in each one I run a Claude Code. Then I can see the status of my Claude Codes just by glancing at the sidebar, rather than having to switch between screens to see what is waiting next.

I've been using it around a week so far.

You can rename the tabs in tmux but not sure if there's a way to do dynamic status (I suspect there is but it's probably non trivial to get it to play nice with the harness)

If you're willing to go down to a single boolean of "needs attention", tmux responds to the terminal bell.

Was just about to say this. And the application can also try to rename the terminal window title with the OSC 2 escape sequence. Don't think you need more than that. The bell was the general "Something needs your attention" since forever.

You can do this. In my current tmux session I have four windows each with a status indicator that shows up when that window is running a claude code session. It is a blue animated braille spinner when it is working, a red dot when it needs attention and a green tick when it is finished with its work.

Claude code exposes a bunch of hooks you can use to have tmux commands execute. This is invaluable if you are multi-tasking and need to see at a glance what needs attention.

Using mosh to do the same (which is helpful if you're on a laptop and you want to survive lid closes or ip roaming)

I think most of this can be done with tmux and some simple extras. An afternoon of vibing.

Yes but someone else has put in the effort so I don't have to. I could go to the supermarket and buy a bunch of groceries and make food, or I could buy food from a restaurant.

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