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Products that do what back2vibing – instantly jump back to your agent's tmux pane / terminal does
I kept losing track of my terminal as I started using Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex more heavily, I kept finding myself cmd-tabbing, hitting cmd-`, and mousing around trying to find the right tab. I have Carpal and Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome in my thumb and pinky, so this was really flaring up my RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) symptoms. So I built back2vibing. When an agent finishes or needs input, it can bring the exact terminal window or tmux pane back into focus so I can start typing or dictating immediately . For me, the biggest benefit is not just for my RSI but also reliability. While…
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Hey HN, Small OSS project that i created for myself and want to share with the community. It's a declarative, scriptable, terminal-based IDE focussed on agentic engineering. That's a lot of jargon, but essentially its a multi-agent IDE that you start in your terminal. Why is that relevant? Thanks to tmux and SSH, it means that you have a really simple and efficient way to create your own always-on coding setup. Boot into your IDE through ssh, give a prompt to claude and close off your machine. In tmux-ide claude will keep working. The tool is intentionally really lightweight, because I think…
Mar 2026 · tmux.thijsverreck.com
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Some two years ago, I found myself spending a lot of time in the terminal between learning vim and discovering new command line tools. I was surprised to see that the niche of HN clis was (relatively) small, and so I decided to write my own command line tool for browsing HN called `circumflex`(`clx`). `clx` is written in Go using Bubble Tea[1]. You can read the comment section or the linked article in reader mode in the pager `less`. Using `lesskey` to add custom keybindings, the replies can be collapsed and expanded in real-time (but not individual replies, only all replies at once). Behind…
2022 · github.com
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Hello everyone. Claudraband wraps a Claude Code TUI in a controlled terminal to enable extended workflows. It uses tmux for visible controlled sessions or xterm.js for headless sessions (a little slower), but everything is mediated by an actual Claude Code TUI. One example of a workflow I use now is having my current Claude Code interrogate older sessions for certain decisions it made: https://github.com/halfwhey/claudraband?tab=readme-ov-file#s... This project provides: - Resumable non-interactive workflows. Essentially `claude -p` with session support: `cband continue…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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i kept hitting rate limits in Claude Code mid-debugging, then hopping to Gemini or Codex. the annoying part wasn't switching tools (copy-pasting terminal output doesn't bring tool-use context with it) — it was losing the full conversation and spending 10 minutes re-explaining what i was doing. so i built *continues*. it finds your existing AI coding sessions across five tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode), lets you pick one, and generates a structured handoff so you can continue in another tool without starting from zero. npx continues # interactive TUI:…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN! I was feeling incredibly frustrated with my struggles in context-switching and writing documentation, so I decided to take action and find a solution. I wrote a simple tool for Alfred and Raycast that helps me be more mindful when switching between tasks, which can even prevent some of those switches. Plus, I can jot down quick notes on each task as I go, making it easier to document everything once I’m finished. This tool is really simple with only 5 commands - tsr, tsn, tsl, tsv, tse tsr writes a new record tsn writes a new note tsl shows you the current task tsv builds a static…
2023 · github.com
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Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago. I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful. I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.
Jan 2026 · github.com
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2022 · github.com
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I built a tool that stores your full Claude Code history to let you easily find and resume sessions. It has TUI, CLI and MCP interfaces. It's a single Go binary, and the session history is synced to SQLite each time you use it. Default mode is the TUI with a session browser and full-text search. Once a session is selected you can browse and search within it, resume it or export to markdown. The MCP server provides tools to let Claude search back through the session for pre-compact context or pull from prior sessions. I use this constantly. I've seen elaborate continuity systems to give…
Jan 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, My cofounder and I have gotten tired of CC ignoring our markdown files so we spent 4 days and built a plugin that automatically steers CC based on our previous sessions. The problem is usually post plan-mode. What we've tried: Heavily use plan mode (works great) CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md Local context folder (upkeep is a pain) Cursor rules (for Cursor) claude-mem (OSS) -> does session continuity, not steering We use fusion search to find your CC steering corrections. - user prompt embeddings + bm25 - correction embeddings + bm25 - time decay - target query embeddings -…
Mar 2026 · gopeek.ai
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I had motivation for writing this after I kept switching back and forth between agents to see if they've finished what they were working on (and I couldn't find a similar tool out there). I'd imagine it can be useful for other scenarios as well, e.g. tracking multiple build/test jobs over multiple windows. Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share :)
Nov 2025 · github.com
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I needed to remote control a program (and read it’s output) while that tool should still be fully interactive for the user. Obviously there are things like tmux and more but they emulate an entire terminal. This is simpler in that it just sets up a pty and basic pipes or files to send stuff in and read from it.
2022 · github.com
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I’ve been running parallel Claude Code instances while working on different tasks. Two problems kept slowing me down: 1. I was constantly jumping between terminals to see which session needed input. 2. Using git worktrees added setup friction (installing deps, bootstrapping environments, etc.), which discouraged parallel work. So I built ccmux. It’s a thin layer on top of tmux that: - Adds a glanceable sidebar UI showing all Claude Code sessions - Surfaces attention-needed states with visible alerts - Wraps git worktrees with a lightweight workflow abstraction so spinning up parallel tasks…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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VSCode was my daily driver for years, but once I started running several coding agents across multiple projects at the same time, it got in the way. One workspace with terminals in the bottom tray, no idea which agent was doing what and I found myself needing all the code editing tools less and less. So I built my own IDE around that workflow. Terminals are a first-class citizen, every project stays alive in the background with visual statuses. Close the workspace and come back weeks later, everything is still in its place. I've been using it for weeks and it's a big productivity boost. The…
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Hibernate & wake Claude Code sessions across reboots. Exact session resume, 9 terminal backends (tmux, iTerm2, kitty…), macOS + Linux. - SteveVitali/claude-hibernate
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Most neovim users will be familiar with flash.nvim, which amongst other things, allows you to quickly jump to a word in your visible buffer. It’s a great tool for developers who want to quickly navigate their codebase. I was looking for something similar, but for tmux. I wanted to be able to search visible words in the current tmux pane, then copy that word to the system clipboard by pressing the associated label key. I built https://github.com/Kristijan/flash-copy.tmux, with the aim to bring that functionality to tmux. Here’s a bit of a write up…
Jan 2026 · github.com
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Hi everyone! I built this because I wanted a little bit more organization around my Claude sessions, worktrees and plans while staying in the terminal and not relying on another SaaS tool. Since it's a command line tool, the added bonus is that Claude can use `td` directly. The td calendar was just a fun add-on but the Claude session stats have been pretty interesting! Let me know what you think!
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, There’s been a lot of interest recently in meta-harnesses, loops, and multi-agent orchestration. Obviously, there are already a lot of good tools: Conductor, cmux, the native Codex / Claude Code apps, etc. For my own use cases, I’ve felt that the orchestration layer tends to feel overengineered. I mostly wanted a simple local harness (i.e Pi) for running and tracking CLI agents with the ability to hop in (via tmux). Relaymux is my opinionated attempt at that. A few design principles: - The frontend is just Telegram / iMessage / CLI. If I want more visibility, I hop…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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