Skills

Tmux CLI

CLI utility to communicate with other CLI Agents or Scripts in other tmux panes; use it...

Install

npx skills add pchalasani/claude-code-tools --skill tmux-cli -g -a claude-code -y
Category
AI and agents
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 269 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

CLI utility to communicate with other CLI Agents or Scripts in other tmux panes; use it only when user asks you to communicate with other CLI Agents or Scripts in other tmux panes.

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:

  • Running builds and knowing if they passed
  • Running tests and detecting pass/fail
  • Multi-step automation that should abort on failure

Note: execute is for shell commands only, not for agent-to-agent chat. For communicating with another Claude Code instance, use send + wait_idle + capture instead.

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