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Show HN: jmux – tmux-based development environment for humans and coding agents
I've been a tmux user for years. When I started running 5-10 Claude Code sessions in parallel, I tried the tools that are out there: Conductor, cmux, the GUI orchestrators. None of them felt right. They either wanted me to leave tmux entirely for a 100MB+ Electron app with its own editor and Git workflow, or they were thin wrappers that didn't solve the actual problem: I need to parallelize my entire development environment, agents, editors, servers, logs, and keep track of all of it.
So I built jmux. It turns tmux into a parallel development environment. Every session, every agent, every running process, visible and navigable from one terminal. When Claude Code completes a response, an orange flag appears on that session. Switch to it, review the work, move on. No context switching to a different app. No learning a new workflow. It's still tmux underneath.
The key decision was to build on tmux instead of replacing it. My ~/.tmux.conf still works. My neovim setup still works. My keybindings, plugins, prefix key, etc, all of it carries over. jmux just makes it all work at scale.
What it does:
- Run Claude Code, Codex, aider. Any agent, directly, in parallel
- Attention flags. Know the moment an agent finishes without watching every pane
- Instant switching between sessions (Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down, no prefix key)
- Auto-groups sessions by project and git branch
- Works with your existing tmux config, editor, and tools
- No SDK, no API wrappers. First-party tools, no middleman.
What it doesn't do:
- No built-in editor (I use neovim btw)
- No built-in Git (use yours)
- No agent protocol/wrapper (run them directly in the terminal)
~1800 lines of TypeScript, ~0.3 MB installed. MIT licensed.
Landing page: https://jmux.build https://jmux.build
Github: https://github.com/jarredkenny/jmux https://github.com/jarredkenny/jmux
- offline_app 6mo agoWell, your timing is perfect. Conductor's been crashing on startup all morning, and nothing I try fixes it.
- Charlieholtz 6mo agoAh shoot sorry to hear that! I’m one of the creators. Can you email me charlie@conductor.build and I can help debug it for you?
- jarredkenny 5mo ago:)
- fdenimar 6mo agoTried this on my WSL2 machine (which is my main machine now) and I can now forget my Mac again because of cmux. Thanks for this.
- jarredkenny 5mo agoHappy to hear this works in WSL!
- jrose74 6mo agoLegend
- cmacrowther 6mo agoCan't wait to give this a shot, looks excellent!
- adam-badar 5mo agodoes jmux handle the case where two agents need to modify the same file?
- jarredkenny 5mo agoNot in anyway that worktrees and coding agents don't already. jmux follows the Unix philosophy which means you compose it with the tools for your workflow. I use a git worktree per thing I am working on and run claude code in the worktree.
- johnwhitman 5mo ago[dead]
- sparklehorse 5mo agoI'm using claude-squad for the same purpose at the moment, will try this one out