tmux-cli

A command-line guide for managing ongoing interactive terminal sessions with tmux, including communication with other command-line agents and remote machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when connecting to remote machines over SSH, interacting with tools that need ongoing input, or sending commands to other agents in tmux panes.
Why use it?
It keeps long-running or interactive work in one persistent session instead of requiring repeated terminal connections.

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/sammcj/agentic-coding/tmux-cli
Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill tmux-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 912 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 $0.00048 $0.00912
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00091

Measured 2d ago against content hash c07f78ce899f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tmux-cli 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/tmux-cli/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tmux-cli

Instructions

  • Use the tmux-cli command to communicate with other CLI Agents or Scripts in other tmux panes. Do tmux-cli --help to see how to use it!
    • This command depends on installing the claude-code-tools. If you get an error indicating that the command is not available, ask the user to install it using: uv tool install claude-code-tools.
    • When using tmux-cli to connect to remote machines you must run it outside the sandbox (the tmux socket is outside the sandbox's allowed paths, and the pane's ssh needs the environment's SSH auth). A sandboxed capture returns empty. Allow-list tmux-cli once to avoid repeated approval prompts.
  • When you are finished with all tasks that you need tmux-cli for clean up the session.

Remote SSH hosts (default pattern)

When you need to run more than one command on a remote host over SSH, do NOT issue repeated one-off ssh host 'cmd' calls - each re-authenticates and needs its own approval. Open ONE persistent session and drive it. This is the default for any multi-command remote work.

  1. Reuse an existing session rather than spawning a new one each task (windows accumulate otherwise): check tmux-cli status / tmux-cli list_panes, reuse its pane if healthy, and only tmux-cli launch "zsh" if none exists. Note the returned pane id.
  2. Arm auto-cleanup on the pane BEFORE connecting, so nothing lingers if the task is abandoned:
    • Idle timeout: export TMOUT=1800 in the launched zsh (self-exits after 30 min idle at a prompt).
    • Hard cap watchdog (zsh): ( sleep 5400 && tmux kill-session -t remote-cli-session ) &! - kills the whole session after 90 min regardless of activity. tmux-cli's remote session is named remote-cli-session on the default socket, so raw tmux can target it. &! backgrounds and disowns so it survives the shell exiting.
  3. Connect with keepalive so a dropped link tears itself down: ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@host.
  4. After connecting, set the same idle timeout on the remote shell (busybox ash and bash both honour it): export TMOUT=1800.
  5. Run work with send + wait_idle + capture. Only the pane's ssh uses the network / SSH auth; tmux-cli itself only talks to the local tmux socket.
  6. Tear it down explicitly when done: tmux-cli cleanup kills the managed session; tmux-cli kill --pane=<id> kills a single pane. Do not leave idle sessions behind - the timeouts above are a backstop, not a substitute for cleanup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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 · 55 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c07f78ce899f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tmux-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (158 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 912 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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