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Technique

Interactive prompts go in a tmux split, not the chat

When a command needs your password, the AI opens a side pane for you to type it.

Upgrading the AI's workbench

how it works

Agent opens a tmux split for sudo/login flows instead of asking the user to run commands inline.

Technique: A pattern or hard-won lesson, written down so it isn't learned twice.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

agentstechniquetmuxux

related

  • Run the tmux server in the GUI session so ssh panes can read Keychain Technique Lets remote terminal sessions use stored passwords and browser tools as if you were at the desk.
  • pane-status Command-line tool Each terminal pane shows a colored dot telling me whether its AI agent is working, waiting for me, done or errored.
  • Agent-composed TV canvas (tmux-style client/server generative UI) App A TV screen that starts blank: you ask for something and an AI assistant finds it in your own media and draws it on screen.
  • tmux pane flash on attention Agent hook When an AI in a background terminal pane needs you, its border flashes pink then stays orange.
  • Director: Mission Control fleet dispatch AI skill One command reads everything on the to-do board and opens a pre-briefed AI assistant for each area of work, side by side in the terminal.
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