tuios is a terminal multiplexer with tiling panes and daemon-backed persistent sessions designed for developers running coding agents in terminals. It shows each agent's state and consolidates approvals, questions, and finished turns from all sessions and machines into a single Inbox.
Project overview
Unlike a general-purpose terminal multiplexer, tuios is agent-aware: it tracks whether each pane's coding agent is working, waiting, done, or errored, and unifies cross-machine agent interactions in one Inbox.
Project type
MCP · AI Agent
Use cases
Coding & Development · Automation
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
MIT
Best for
Developers and AI engineers who run multiple coding agents in terminals and want persistent sessions plus a unified view of agent state and pending approvals.
Key capabilities
Panes running coding agents report working/waiting/done/errored state, and one Inbox lists approvals, questions, and finished turns in every session and on every machine.
Limitations and risks
Requires a terminal with true color support; kitty graphics and sixel are recommended.
Sixel image passthrough is experimental, with no pixel-level clipping yet.
Getting started
Install via Homebrew (brew install tuios), then run tuios; it launches and attaches to a daemon-backed session. Setup is documented as easy via a single package-manager install (a single docker run is also documented).
Evidence and sources
README: TUIOS is a modern terminal multiplexer and window manager built with Go. It provides a vim-like modal interface with multiple terminal panes, workspaces, BSP tiling, kitty graphic…
GitHub project description: A terminal window manager that knows what your agents are doing. Tiling panes, workspaces, sessions that survive restarts, and one Inbox for every coding agent.
README: **Inbox**: <kbd>Prefix</kbd>+<kbd>i</kbd> lists everything waiting for you in every session and on every machine: approvals, questions, mail, errors, finished turns.
README: brew install tuios
README: **Requirements:** A terminal with true color support. Kitty graphics and sixel support recommended (Ghostty, Kitty, WezTerm).