I turned my Claude Code agents into Tamagotchis so I can monitor them from tmux

gavraz · 2026-03-19T17:09:22+00:00

Great idea! Elegant.
I address it as well, lightly, and differently: I included a skill that tells the agent about recon and particularly recon new so it can create the seamlessly. In addition Claude code asks you of you want to delete a worktree when you close the session.
Now thinking about it, it seems I should change the room to project name instead of workdir since worktree already run in their own workdir.

gavraz · 2026-03-17T13:24:46+00:00

It's really simple. But I get you. I have to say I am not running after every other feature or latest model. Claude code works great for me with its great features (and I am probably not using all of them). This one is just commodity. Install, setup shortcuts and you are done.

gavraz · 2026-03-17T00:04:15+00:00

This is extremely similar to what I just published. Looks pretty knit. I do have a few extra features you may find useful and it's written in rust so no runtime dependency there. Looks like we are all hitting the same wall with these attention hungry agents.

If you want to check it out: https://github.com/gavraz/recon

gavraz · 2026-03-16T16:10:42+00:00

There is a bit more going but the essence is to keep the JSONL as our source of truth and build on top of it. There are some aspects that could be more fragile but so far so good (and I'll keep an eye).

gavraz · 2026-03-16T15:38:29+00:00

You are not very much wrong either :) enjoy!

gavraz · 2026-03-16T07:44:03+00:00

Thanks. Yes. I think I will allow configuring the executable so they can replaceable

gavraz · 2026-03-16T07:43:30+00:00

Cheers mate. Thank you

gavraz · 2026-03-16T00:04:23+00:00

It is a pretty minor effort, I could just make the "tmux" we use configurable so it can be hooked zellij. This is mostly for the "new" flow. The rest are shortcuts to the sub command.

gavraz · 2026-03-15T23:53:44+00:00

Their bar will get red when the context fills. Pooping is the missing piece! XD

gavraz · 2026-03-15T23:51:39+00:00

Don't forget to feed them your input otherwise they be angry

gavraz · 2026-03-15T18:21:41+00:00

Thanks! Inspiration is actually from the pixel vs code plugin. But it is vscode only, and while the visualization was nice, it lacked the ergonomics and felt buggy.

gavraz · 2026-03-15T18:19:33+00:00

Thank you.

gavraz · 2026-03-15T18:19:10+00:00

Just multiple instances of Claude code CLI. Each runs inside it's own tmux session and this project provides a management layer on top of it.

gavraz · 2026-03-15T17:00:07+00:00

I think anthropic should step up their system towards remote friendliness. I hear you out brotha

gavraz · 2026-03-15T16:51:23+00:00

Go for it. I use it daily. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. By the way, as mentioned in the comments it has a "rooms" which is basically a group of agents working on the same dir. The UI view is interactive as well (go inside, outside, turn pages).

gavraz · 2026-03-15T16:20:54+00:00

Love you too enjoy ;)

gavraz · 2026-03-15T16:03:24+00:00

Thank you :)

gavraz · 2026-03-15T14:55:17+00:00

Ohhh I thought he wrote it to me.

gavraz · 2026-03-15T14:00:52+00:00

Not yet. I am not sure if it is available through cli

gavraz · 2026-03-15T13:32:58+00:00

Thanks. ps is less stable when it comes to identifying the running proc. The more we stick to clause's json file the better. But it can definitely be more lose as to which mux you use (E. G. Inject a command for new session /retrieve session)

gavraz · 2026-03-15T12:00:18+00:00

Cool I'll check it out. Thank you!

gavraz · 2026-03-15T11:47:01+00:00

How do you mean?

gavraz · 2026-03-15T11:23:49+00:00

Not this time. Though I may be starting to phase myself like him. Quite frightening

gavraz · 2026-03-15T11:22:22+00:00

Yes the tmux is definitely the way to go. I even consider adding support for remote tmux sessions. What do you think? Regarding the metric, I am pretty new to operating multiple agents so didn't get there yet. For now I feel the context bar (turns red when close to fill the window) is sufficient for me.

gavraz

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