Send keystrokes and capture pane output in tmux sessions.
npx skills add https://github.com/tizee/dotfiles --skill tmux-tizee
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: tmux Source: https://github.com/tizee/dotfiles/tree/main/claude/skills/tmux Command: npx skills add https://github.com/tizee/dotfiles --skill tmux-tizee
This Skill empowers AI to programmatically interact with complex command-line interfaces (CLIs) running within tmux sessions. It eliminates the need for manual input and output monitoring in interactive CLI workflows, such as debugging, running REPLs, or managing database clients. By allowing the AI to control these tools as if a human were typing, it ensures consistent execution, reduces manual effort, and accelerates development and operational tasks.
tmux pane, enabling seamless automation of interactive processes.tmux panes to understand program state, detect specific prompts, or verify command execution results.tmux sessions for different tasks, ensuring a clean, reproducible, and controlled environment for each operation.tmux session, set breakpoints, step through code, inspect variables, and capture the output to pinpoint the root cause of an issue, all without direct human intervention.To start a Python REPL session and execute a command: Use the tmux skill to create a clean Python REPL session named 'my-python-repl' with the program 'PYTHON_BASIC_REPL=1 python3 -q' and wait for the prompt '^>>> '. Once the session is ready, send the command "print('Hello, Claude!')" followed by Enter to the 'my-python-repl' session. Capture the last 5 lines of output from the 'my-python-repl' session.
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Automate interactive CLI sessions by using tmux to create isolated terminal environments, send keystrokes and commands to specific panes, and capture output in real time. This enables hands-off control of Python REPLs, GDB, LLDB, psql, and other interactive tools without manual monitoring.
Yes. Programmatically control tmux sessions by sending commands to start debuggers like GDB or LLDB, set breakpoints, step through code, inspect variables, and scrape output to analyze program state—all without human intervention.
Capture output from terminal processes by scraping tmux pane content in real time. Monitor specific prompts, verify command execution results, and detect program state changes as they occur within isolated session environments.
Create isolated tmux sessions for each task with socket-managed session directories. This ensures clean, reproducible environments where you can run multiple interactive CLIs in parallel without interference or state leakage between operations.
Yes. Send keystrokes to Python REPLs, bash shells, psql clients, and any interactive terminal running in a tmux pane. Use prompt detection and output capture to drive sequences of commands and verify results end to end.
Session isolation requires per-session socket directories and proper input delivery modes. Timing between keystrokes and prompt detection is critical; ensure pane output scraping waits for expected prompts before sending subsequent commands to avoid race conditions.
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