Named Tmux Manager: spawn, tile, and coordinate multiple AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) across tmux panes with a TUI command palette

NTM - Named Tmux Manager

NTM turns tmux into a local control plane for multi-agent software development. It combines session orchestration, graph-aware work triage, safety policy and approvals, Agent Mail coordination, durable state capture, machine-readable robot surfaces, and a local REST/WebSocket API in one Go binary.

curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dicklesworthstone/ntm/main/install.sh?$(date +%s)" | bash -s -- --easy-mode

TL;DR

The Problem

Running several coding agents in parallel is easy to start and annoying to sustain. Plain tmux gives you panes, but it does not give you durable coordination, work selection, safety policy, approvals, history, replayable automation surfaces, or a shared control model that both humans and agents can use.

The Solution

NTM gives you a single local system for:

• spawning labeled multi-agent sessions in tmux
• sending work, interrupts, and follow-ups across panes
• triaging what to do next with br and bv
• coordinating agents with Agent Mail, file reservations, and assignments
• protecting dangerous operations with policy, approvals, and guards
• exposing the whole system through --robot-*, REST, SSE, WebSocket, and OpenAPI
• capturing state with checkpoints, timelines, audit trails, and pipeline state

Why NTM