Tmux

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to interact with and manage terminal multiplexer sessions within a tmux environment. It allows the agent to create, attach to, detach from, and list existing tmux sessions effectively.

When to use it

• Managing long-running background processes that need to persist across terminal closures.
• Splitting the screen into multiple panes for monitoring different services simultaneously.
• Creating named workspaces to organize distinct development or debugging contexts.
• Detaching from a session to continue working elsewhere while keeping the process active.

Key capabilities

• Create new tmux sessions with custom names.
• List all currently available tmux sessions.
• Attach to an existing session by name or index.
• Detach from a session without terminating its processes.
• Kill or remove specific tmux sessions.

Example prompts

• "Create a new tmux session named 'dev-env' and attach to it."
• "List all my active tmux sessions and show me the details of the one running Python."
• "Detach from the current tmux session so I can keep the process running in the background."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your AI agent has permission to execute terminal commands and that a tmux server is running on the target machine. This skill relies on standard tmux command-line syntax; if custom configurations exist, they may affect how sessions behave.