Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
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What it is
Tmux-IDE turns your terminal into a multi-agent development environment. Picture tmux's session management combined with declarative configuration files that define your workspace layout and agent connections. Instead of juggling VS Code windows and browser tabs for AI assistants, you define everything in config, boot into it via SSH, and let agents work in persistent terminal panes.
Why it matters
If you're running AI coding agents regularly, this solves the 'always closing my laptop and losing context' problem. SSH into a cloud box or home server, resume your exact IDE state, prompt Claude in one pane while watching logs in another. Matters most if you want scriptable, reproducible dev environments or run long agent sessions that shouldn't die with your local machine.
Key details
- •Built on tmux — uses session persistence and terminal multiplexing as the foundation
- •Declarative config defines panes, layouts, and agent connections before launch
- •Designed for 'agentic engineering' workflows — prompt agents, let them work, check back later
- •SSH-native — access your IDE from any device without syncing or cloud IDE subscriptions
- •Open source project released by Thijs Verreck on Hacker News