dmux-workflows

A workflow for running several AI coding-agent sessions in parallel using dmux, a terminal tool that manages agent sessions in separate panes. Results can be brought back together after the work is split up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to divide research, implementation, testing, documentation, or other complex coding work among Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cline, Gemini, Qwen, and similar agent sessions.
Why use it?
It lets independent parts of a development task proceed at the same time while keeping a way to combine their results.

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/mit-network/everything-claude-code/dmux-workflows
Any agent
npx skills add mit-network/everything-claude-code --skill dmux-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mit-network/everything-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,140 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% 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 $0.00056 $0.01140
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash 06343029c1ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dmux-workflows 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to dmux-workflows — 1 line 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.

.agents/skills/dmux-workflows/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dmux Workflows

Orchestrate parallel AI agent sessions using dmux, a tmux pane manager for agent harnesses.

When to Activate

  • Running multiple agent sessions in parallel
  • Coordinating work across Claude Code, Codex, and other harnesses
  • Complex tasks that benefit from divide-and-conquer parallelism
  • User says "run in parallel", "split this work", "use dmux", or "multi-agent"

What is dmux

dmux is a tmux-based orchestration tool that manages AI agent panes:

  • Press n to create a new pane with a prompt
  • Press m to merge pane output back to the main session
  • Supports: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cline, Gemini, Qwen

Install: npm install -g dmux or see github.com/standardagents/dmux

Quick Start

# Start dmux session
dmux

# Create agent panes (press 'n' in dmux, then type prompt)
# Pane 1: "Implement the auth middleware in src/auth/"
# Pane 2: "Write tests for the user service"
# Pane 3: "Update API documentation"

# Each pane runs its own agent session
# Press 'm' to merge results back

Workflow Patterns

Pattern 1: Research + Implement

Split research and implementation into parallel tracks:

Pane 1 (Research): "Research best practices for rate limiting in Node.js.
  Check current libraries, compare approaches, and write findings to
  /tmp/rate-limit-research.md"

Pane 2 (Implement): "Implement rate limiting middleware for our Express API.
  Start with a basic token bucket, we'll refine after research completes."

# After Pane 1 completes, merge findings into Pane 2's context

Pattern 2: Multi-File Feature

Parallelize work across independent files:

Pane 1: "Create the database schema and migrations for the billing feature"
Pane 2: "Build the billing API endpoints in src/api/billing/"
Pane 3: "Create the billing dashboard UI components"

# Merge all, then do integration in main pane

Pattern 3: Test + Fix Loop

Run tests in one pane, fix in another:

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 145 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 06343029c1ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dmux-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository mit-network/everything-claude-code (76 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,140 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to dmux-workflows, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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