Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots
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HN · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 48 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A tmux save-and-restore tool is a shell-scripting project that captures session, window, and pane layout and restarts commands, and similar open-source tools already exist. The page text is only GitHub boilerplate, so the description is thin.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tmux-resurrect, tmux-continuum, tmux native save/restore (v4.0), session-keeper, herdr
Concerns raised: Running processes are not restored, Hyper-V hibernation may be simpler than this approach, VM memory overhead compared to this tool
Feature requests: Save on shutdown or on a schedule, Save long-running processes like tail -f, Support for Claude Code, pi, and Copilot CLI agent sessions, Restore agent sessions in their original panes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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- tmux-shared-session-notes · github · 2026-11-09 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Recover Claude Code Desktop sessions after switching accounts · hn · 2026-10-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MacLayout · hn · 2026-03-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OSWarp · github · 2026-10-09 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Agent Multiplexer · hn · 2026-02-23 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- WMUX · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- rexume · github · 2026-10-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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