gridbash-panes

A skill for coordinating AI agents working in separate GridBash terminal panes, where each pane can have its own role or task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing panes, reading their activity, prompting one or more agents, and renaming panes to show ownership.
Why use it?
It makes parallel work visible and lets agents exchange instructions and status without guessing what other panes are doing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/jasonsuhari/gridbash/gridbash-panes
Any agent
npx skills add jasonsuhari/gridbash --skill gridbash-panes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonsuhari/gridbash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,523 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00097 $0.01523
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00152

Measured 2d ago against content hash 45f62a353bdb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gridbash-panes 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.

skills/gridbash-panes/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GridBash pane coordination

You are one pane in a GridBash grid. Other panes are independent coding agents working in the same repository, often in separate worktrees. GridBash exposes a localhost control API so panes can see and talk to each other.

First: are you actually in a GridBash pane?

Check for GRIDBASH_CONTROL_ADDR. If it is unset, you are not in a GridBash pane and none of this applies — say so instead of guessing.

Panes inherit GRIDBASH_CONTROL_ADDR, GRIDBASH_CONTROL_TOKEN, GRIDBASH_CONTROL_SESSION, GRIDBASH_PANE_INDEX (1-based, changes on reorder), and GRIDBASH_PANE_ID (stable). The CLI reads all of these itself — never pass --session or --token from inside a pane.

The two surfaces

Both reach the same API. Use whichever your harness makes cheaper.

CLI — always available in a pane, zero setup:

gridbash agent panes
gridbash agent prompt --pane pane-4-gen-2 "Rebase onto main, then report"
printf "Report status, blockers, and next action" | gridbash agent prompt --others
gridbash agent rename "Reviewer"
gridbash agent rename --pane pane-4-gen-2 --clear

MCP — richer output, requires the client to be pointed at gridbash --mcp:

Tool Use it for
gridbash_get_grid_snapshot Who exists, their role, state, and a one-line activity summary
gridbash_read_pane_output Bounded recent output from specific stable pane IDs
gridbash_prompt_panes Prompt explicit targets, or other_panes: true for everyone else
gridbash_rename_pane Set or clear a pane title
gridbash_send_command Raw shell text into a pane (not an agent prompt)
gridbash_set_status One-line message in the grid status bar
gridbash_capture_output / gridbash_start_logging / gridbash_stop_logging Persist pane output to files

Pane targets

Snapshots return two identifiers per pane. Use the right one:

  • target (pane-4-gen-2) — stable. Survives reordering, and fails loudly if the pane was replaced. Use this for anything that writes to a pane.
  • pane_number (1-based) — display position only. It shifts when panes move.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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 · 141 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 45f62a353bdb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gridbash-panes is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasonsuhari/gridbash (131 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,523 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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