Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
I built Agent-Manager, a terminal interface to run multiple AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode side by side in tmux. This tool lets you monitor live status, organize sessions into project trees, and send prompts without attaching to each window. You can review code changes with syntax-highlighted diffs and revive dead sessions instantly, keeping your workflow seamless even after quitting the manager.
Instead of hunting through terminal tabs to see which agent is done and which is stuck, every session shows up in one list with live status, grouped into a project tree you can fold and reorder.
- hamaluik
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 want to.
- aghuang
How does this compare to something like herdr which does all of this?
- mark_l_watson
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 like Claude Code and OpenCode into an integrated work environment.
I have been hacking on my own Emacs based agentic coding and work environment (so much fun!) but my recent experience with Herdr has been much more productive.
Anyway, the docs for agent-manager look good, I look forward to reading HNer’s experience with it.
- vladgur
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
- Atotalnoob
I don’t get the point of these.
Ghostty has tabs which show the icons for the terminal TUI. You can just look at those for the status.
Same with windows terminal, and you can use either of those to have tiling.