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Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE

Details

External ID
47428868
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
Website domain
thijsverreck.com
Launched
March 18, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
88
Upvotes percentile
0.8929889298892989
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

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

Enrichment

Theme
AI agent frameworks and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
ai-first terminal ide
Manually corrected
False

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 — 339 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #44 of 340 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 135 days after the earliest competitor.

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