Ntm

What it does

NTM (Named Tmux Manager) transforms your terminal into a multi-agent command center, specifically designed for orchestrating AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini in parallel. It allows you to spawn, manage, and coordinate these agents within tiled panes of a tmux session, providing persistent sessions even across SSH disconnections. NTM streamlines the process of working with multiple AI agents by eliminating window chaos, simplifying context switching, automating prompt distribution, and offering visual status updates.

When to use it

• You're frequently using multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) simultaneously for a project.
• Managing individual terminal windows for each agent is becoming cumbersome and inefficient.
• You need a way to quickly send the same prompt or task to several AI agents at once.
• You want persistent sessions that survive SSH disconnections.
• You desire a visual overview of your AI agent activity and their status.

Key capabilities

• Agent Orchestration: Spawns, manages, and coordinates Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini agents within tmux panes.
• Persistent Sessions: Maintains agent sessions even after SSH disconnections.
• Automated Prompt Distribution: Sends prompts to multiple agents simultaneously.
• TUI Dashboard: Provides a visual dashboard for monitoring agent status (accessible via ntm dashboard).
• Command Palette: Offers a fuzzy-searchable TUI with pre-configured prompts and keybindings.
• Session Management: Includes commands for listing, attaching to, killing, zooming, and viewing tmux sessions (ntm list, ntm attach, ntm kill, etc.).

Example prompts

• ntm spawn myproject --cc = 2 --cod = 1 --gmi = 1: Creates a session named "myproject" with 2 Claude Code, 1 Codex, and 1 Gemini agents.
• ntm send myproject --cc "Explore this codebase and summarize its architecture.": Sends the prompt to all Claude Code agents within the "myproject" session.
• ntm palette myproject: Opens the interactive command palette for the "myproject" session.

Tips & gotchas

• Dependencies: Requires Go and tmux. Ensure these are installed before attempting installation.
• Shell Integration: After installing, you need to add shell integration (e.g., echo 'eval "$(ntm init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc) for the commands to work correctly.
• Agent CLI Tools: NTM relies on the command-line interfaces (claude, codex, gemini) for each agent being properly configured and accessible in your environment.