jmux
tmux-based development environment for humans and coding agents
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I've been a tmux user for years. When I started running 5-10 Claude Code sessions in parallel, I tried the tools that are out there: Conductor, cmux, the GUI orchestrators. None of them felt right. They either wanted me to leave tmux entirely for a 100MB+ Electron app with its own editor and Git workflow, or they were thin wrappers that didn't solve the actual problem: I need to parallelize my entire development environment, agents, editors, servers, logs, and keep track of all of it.So I built jmux. It turns tmux into a parallel development environment. Every session, every agent, every running process, visible and navigable from one terminal. When Claude Code completes a response, an orange flag appears on that session. Switch to it, review the work, move on. No context switching to a different app. No learning a new workflow. It's still tmux underneath.The key decision was to build on tmux instead of replacing it. My ~/.tmux.conf still works. My neovim setup still works. My keybindings, plugins, prefix key, etc, all of it carries over. jmux just makes it all work at scale.What it does:- Run Claude Code, Codex, aider. Any agent, directly, in parallel- Attention flags. Know the moment an agent finishes without watching every pane- Instant switching between sessions (Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down, no prefix key)- Auto-groups sessions by project and git branch- Works with your existing tmux config, editor, and tools- No SDK, no API wrappers. First-party tools, no middleman.What it doesn't do:- No built-in editor (I use neovim btw)- No built-in Git (use yours)- No agent protocol/wrapper (run them directly in the terminal)~1800 lines of TypeScript, ~0.3 MB installed. MIT licensed.Landing page: https://jmux.buildGithub: https://github.com/jarredkenny/jmux
HN · launched Apr 5, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 514 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It is a terminal/tmux orchestrator script or CLI tool that manages tmux panes, windows, and sessions for running parallel CLI agent processes.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: claude-squad, git worktree, coding agents, Conductor
Concerns raised: Handling multiple agents modifying the same file simultaneously, Conductor crashing on startup
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 417 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #192 of 418 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 153 days after the earliest competitor.
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- claude-tg-bot · ph · 2026-10-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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