libtmux-mcp AGENTS.md

A server that gives an AI assistant programmatic control over tmux, a terminal tool for keeping sessions, windows, and panes running. It includes tools and resources for navigating and managing that hierarchy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work with tmux sessions, windows, panes, buffers, hooks, and waits, or to develop and test the server's corresponding tools.
Why use it?
It lets the agent inspect and control long-running terminal work in a structured way, with project rules for handling sessions and errors.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/tmux-python/libtmux-mcp/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmux-python/libtmux-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 862 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 862 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00862 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00431 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00172 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00086 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash 21784c5fd269, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

libtmux-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

libtmux-mcp is a Model Context Protocol server that gives an AI agent programmatic control over tmux — sessions, windows, panes — built on libtmux.

Follow the conventions already in the tree, and keep a change scoped to what was asked for.

What is here

Path What it is
src/libtmux_mcp/server.py FastMCP instance: construction, instructions, lifespan
src/libtmux_mcp/middleware.py Toolset gating, response limiting, error mapping
src/libtmux_mcp/_utils.py Server cache, object resolvers/serializers, handle_tool_errors
src/libtmux_mcp/models.py Pydantic models for tool outputs
src/libtmux_mcp/tools/ MCP tool implementations: one module per tmux object, plus batch/buffer/hook/wait_for
src/libtmux_mcp/resources/ tmux:// URI resources for browsing the hierarchy
src/libtmux_mcp/prompts/ MCP prompt templates
scripts/mcp_swap.py Dev script: point agent CLI configs at a local checkout
tests/ pytest suite; tests/docs/ covers doc-widget and topic contracts
docs/ Sphinx source; docs/tools/ mirrors tools/, one page per tool
CHANGES Changelog, included into the built docs/history.md page
conftest.py Root doctest fixtures — see .github/WRITING.md

Which policy applies

  • Documentation, user-facing text, CHANGES, release notes, commit messages, docstrings, and source comments: .github/WRITING.md
  • Environment, the gates, tests, documentation builds, releases, and pull requests: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md

Each of those is the single home for its subject. Where a rule seems to be stated twice, the file listed above is the one that governs.

Change discipline

  • Make the smallest coherent change that solves the verified problem; keep unrelated cleanup out of it.
  • Reuse an existing file, helper, API, or test before adding a new one.
  • Add a file only for a durable boundary — a distinct responsibility, independent reuse, or splitting an oversized module — not for a single-use helper or a one-line re-export.
  • Add a test for every user-visible behaviour change, and a CHANGES entry for every change to a tool, resource, prompt, or configuration variable.
  • A passing gate is evidence only once it has been shown capable of failing. Pair a new test with a deliberate break that proves it bites.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 862 tokens per session scan A 21784c5fd269

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libtmux-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tmux-python/libtmux-mcp (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 862 tokens to every session, about $0.0043 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.