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aantix | 4 months ago

Along these lines, how does everyone visually organize the multiple terminal tabs open for these numerous agents in various states?

I wish there were a way to search across all open tabs.

I've started color-coding my Claude code tabs, all red, which helps me to find them visually. I do this with a preexec in my ~/.zshrc.

But wondering if anyone else has any better tricks for organizing all of these agent tabs?

I'm using iTerm2 on macOS.

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nvader|4 months ago

Not just visually organizing the terminals for the agents, but also keeping their environments and source trees straight, and merging them to the correct upstream branches, can quickly turn into a very complex co-ordination problem.

This is exactly why we built Sculptor (https://imbue.com/sculptor). You don't need to manually juggle multiple terminal tabs because each Claude Code agent gets its own container with a UI that shows all your running agents in one place. You can see at a glance what your agents are doing and jump between them instantly. All the history and context is preserved per-agent, so you can reopen any session later without having to dig through the backscroll in multiple terminals.

aantix|4 months ago

I did try out sculptor. I like the idea of the pairing mode - the syncing to the main branch is quite helpful.

A couple of items

1. As output comes back from Claude Code, I wish it were streamed to the screen in Sculptor. Seeing the text build up in realtime gives me the feeling of the agent being "alive". It's hard to describe - but I find it more delightful to see it streamed in realtime.

2. Add more hotkeys.

Multiplayer|4 months ago

This may not be your cup of tea but I'm using stage manager on Mac for the first time after hating on it for years, for exactly this. I've got 3 monitors and they all have 4-6 stage manager windows. I bundle the terminals, web browser and whatever into these windows. Easily switching from project to project.

lugu|4 months ago

Use tmux with multiple sessions. Then press Crtl-b S, you can interactively browse your seesons.

sounds231|4 months ago

Aerospace (tiling window manager for macOS). Bit of a learning curve but it’s amazing