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Tmux CLI

by pchalasani

Tmux CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

2K stars128 forkson pchalasani/claude-code-toolsAdded 2026/08/18Repository updated 2026/08/17
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Install Tmux CLI
Copy Tmux CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/tmux-cli/skills/tmux-cli ~/.claude/skills/tmux-cli

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
plugins/tmux-cli/skills/tmux-cli/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/tmux-cli
Collection
One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Automation1523 skills

What Tmux CLI does

Tmux CLI lets a Claude Code agent send commands and messages to other CLI agents or scripts running in separate tmux panes. Use it when you need to coordinate work across multiple panes, run shell commands with exit code detection, or communicate with another Claude Code instance.

Tmux CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Tmux CLI comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

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.

Key Commands

Execute with Exit Code Detection

Use tmux-cli execute when you need to know if a shell command succeeded or failed:

tmux-cli execute "make test" --pane=2
# Returns JSON: {"output": "...", "exit_code": 0}

tmux-cli execute "npm install" --pane=ops:1.3 --timeout=60
# Returns exit_code=0 on success, non-zero on failure, -1 on timeout

This is useful for:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Tmux CLI

  • What else does pchalasani publish alongside Tmux CLI?

    Tmux CLI is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Agent Style and Avoid AI Writing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Tmux CLI does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.

  • How does Tmux CLI compare to other Automation skills?

    Tmux CLI ranks #510 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Tmux CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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