tmux

tmux is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from geezerrrr/motive. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,315 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tmux, MIT.

A tool for controlling tmux, a terminal program that keeps command-line sessions running and split into panes. It can send keystrokes and read text shown in those panes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting interactive shells or command-line applications, typing commands into them, checking their output, and monitoring long-running sessions.
Why use it?
It lets an agent work with interactive command-line programs that need a live terminal, even when the agent is controlling them remotely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Starting interactive shells or command-line applications, typing commands into them, checking their output, and monitoring long-running sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/geezerrrr/motive/tmux
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.

Any agent
npx skills add geezerrrr/motive --skill tmux
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geezerrrr/motive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.01315
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00526
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00131

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 933978f08eb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tmux 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/find-sessions.sh, scripts/wait-for-text.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to tmux — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Motive/Resources/Skills.bundle/tmux/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tmux Skill (OpenClaw)

Use tmux only when you need an interactive TTY. Prefer exec background mode for long-running, non-interactive tasks.

Quickstart (isolated socket, exec tool)

SOCKET_DIR="${OPENCLAW_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR:-${CLAWDBOT_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/openclaw-tmux-sockets}}"
mkdir -p "$SOCKET_DIR"
SOCKET="$SOCKET_DIR/openclaw.sock"
SESSION=openclaw-python

tmux -S "$SOCKET" new -d -s "$SESSION" -n shell
tmux -S "$SOCKET" send-keys -t "$SESSION":0.0 -- 'PYTHON_BASIC_REPL=1 python3 -q' Enter
tmux -S "$SOCKET" capture-pane -p -J -t "$SESSION":0.0 -S -200

After starting a session, always print monitor commands:

To monitor:
  tmux -S "$SOCKET" attach -t "$SESSION"
  tmux -S "$SOCKET" capture-pane -p -J -t "$SESSION":0.0 -S -200

Socket convention

  • Use OPENCLAW_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR (legacy CLAWDBOT_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR also supported).
  • Default socket path: "$OPENCLAW_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR/openclaw.sock".

Targeting panes and naming

  • Target format: session:window.pane (defaults to :0.0).
  • Keep names short; avoid spaces.
  • Inspect: tmux -S "$SOCKET" list-sessions, tmux -S "$SOCKET" list-panes -a.

Finding sessions

  • List sessions on your socket: {baseDir}/scripts/find-sessions.sh -S "$SOCKET".
  • Scan all sockets: {baseDir}/scripts/find-sessions.sh --all (uses OPENCLAW_TMUX_SOCKET_DIR).

Sending input safely

  • Prefer literal sends: tmux -S "$SOCKET" send-keys -t target -l -- "$cmd".
  • Control keys: tmux -S "$SOCKET" send-keys -t target C-c.

Watching output

  • Capture recent history: tmux -S "$SOCKET" capture-pane -p -J -t target -S -200.
  • Wait for prompts: {baseDir}/scripts/wait-for-text.sh -t session:0.0 -p 'pattern'.
  • Attaching is OK; detach with Ctrl+b d.

Spawning processes

  • For python REPLs, set PYTHON_BASIC_REPL=1 (non-basic REPL breaks send-keys flows).

Windows / WSL

  • tmux is supported on macOS/Linux. On Windows, use WSL and install tmux inside WSL.
  • This skill is gated to darwin/linux and requires tmux on PATH.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 933978f08eb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tmux is a skill published in the GitHub repository geezerrrr/motive (118 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,315 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to tmux, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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