Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
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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 the power should come from the harnesses that you are working with.I'm hoping to share this with the community and get feedback and suggestions to shape this project! I think that "remote work" is directionally correct, because we can now have extremely long-running coding tasks. But I also think we should be able to control and orchstrate that experience according to what we need.The project is 100% open-source, and i hope to shape it together with others who like to work in this way too!Github: https://github.com/wavyrai/tmux-ide Docs: https://tmux.thijsverreck.com/docs
HN · launched Mar 18, 2026 · 88 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
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Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a terminal UI (TUI) wrapper around tmux CLI commands using Node.js/OpenTUI to manage panes, processes, and agent statuses.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tmux with plugins like tmux resurrect, Ghostty-based terminal (webterm), Atria, Wingthing, Helix + tmux
Concerns raised: Overwrites existing tmux config, can't run in parallel with custom workflows, More complex UX than tmux, harder to reason about quickly, Terminal-first approach limits onboarding for VSCode-native teammates, Why restrict to 1980s terminal instead of modern graphical displays and high-DPI?
Feature requests: Support running alongside existing tmux configs without overwriting them, Multi-pane debugging support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 668 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 669 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 136 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Corgi · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents · hn · 2025-12-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Maxxwell · hn · 2026-09-09 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- RemoteConsole · ph · 2026-09-25 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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