Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents
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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 into tmux.- Subagents are normal interactive CLI agents running in tmux windows, usually with their own worktrees.- The harness owns the tmux session, so each longer task becomes a named tab/window. Subagents report back to the orchestrator via CLI when they’re blocked or done. Then the orchestrator just messages me on Telegram / iMessage- It works with any CLI agent that has an interactive terminal mode, so I don’t need special print-mode/non-interactive support. This means I don’t need to stress about the Agent SDK / claude -p billing limitations.
HN · launched Jun 17, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 45%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 514 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It is a CLI meta-harness orchestrating local agents using tmux sessions and standard shell scripting or scripting wrappers.
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