TUIOS
TUIOS is a free, MIT-licensed terminal multiplexer and window manager for terminal sessions, coding agents, and work across local and remote machines.
What TUIOS is
TUIOS is a free, MIT-licensed terminal multiplexer and window manager for terminal sessions, coding agents, and work across local and remote machines. Workspaces can use binary space partitioning, master-stack, or scrolling layouts, or run without tiling. A daemon keeps sessions available after detaching, including over SSH. Layouts and working directories return after a daemon restart or reboot, but running programs and scrollback do not. TUIOS detects coding agents in panes and shows their states in pane titles and the session rail; its Inbox collects approvals, questions, errors, and finished turns needing attention. Documented integrations include Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and opencode, among others, and an integration command connects 19 agent harnesses. Users can add other machines as hosts, attach to their sessions, or run panes remotely; a separate tuios-web binary provides a browser terminal. Automation options include a JSON control protocol, CLI commands, tape scripts, and hooks. Prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. TUIOS requires a true-color terminal; source builds require Go 1.26.6 or newer.
Good
- Tracks agent states and gathers attention items in one Inbox.
- Daemon preserves sessions after detaching.
- Remote sessions and panes can run over SSH.
- Prebuilt binaries include Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD.
Watch out
- Running programs and scrollback do not return after restart.
- Requires a true-color terminal.
- Source builds require Go 1.26.6 or newer.
Who it suits
TUIOS is aimed at people managing coding agents, terminal sessions, and work across local and remote machines. It suits users who want detachable sessions and pane layouts in terminal or browser environments.
Verdict
TUIOS combines pane management, persistent sessions, and coding-agent status tracking. Note that a restart restores layouts and working directories, not running programs or scrollback.
The facts
Each one read from TUIOS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent integrations
- The documented integrations include Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, opencode, Kilo, Amp, Kimi Code CLI, Pi, oh-my-pi and Qwen Code.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Agent monitoring
- It tracks coding-agent states in panes and shows them in pane titles and the session rail.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Agent tools
- It detects coding agents including Claude Code and Codex, displays their status, and collects approvals, questions and finished turns in one Inbox.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Automation
- TUIOS provides a JSON control protocol, CLI commands, tape scripts and hooks for driving sessions and running commands on events.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Automation API
- Scripts and programs can drive the daemon through line-delimited JSON on its Unix socket.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Inbox
- The Inbox collects approvals, questions, errors and finished turns that need attention across sessions.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- The README says `tuios integration install` connects 19 agent harnesses, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and opencode.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Intended users
- The site presents TUIOS for people managing coding agents, terminal sessions and work across local and remote machines.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Layouts
- It supports BSP tiling, master-stack and scrolling layouts, as well as manually arranged windows.checked 7 Oct 2001
- License
- The project is MIT licensed.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Persistent sessions
- A daemon keeps sessions running after detaching so users can attach again later, including over SSH.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Product
- TUIOS is a terminal multiplexer and window manager with workspaces, tiling, persistent sessions and a vim-style modal interface.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Remote access
- Sessions and individual panes can run on other machines over SSH, and a separate tuios-web binary serves a browser terminal.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Requirements
- TUIOS requires a terminal with true color support, and building from source requires Go 1.26.6 or newer.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Security
- The control socket is restricted to the user through a mode 0700 directory, and pane actions can be limited by grants.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Security reporting
- The security policy requests private vulnerability reports by email and says response times are not guaranteed because the project is maintained in personal free time.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Security support
- Security reports should be sent privately by email; the maintainer says response times are not guaranteed because the project is maintained in personal free time.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Sessions
- A daemon keeps sessions available after detaching; layout and working directories return after a daemon restart or reboot, but running programs and scrollback do not.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Terminal features
- It includes vim-style copy mode with up to 10,000 lines of scrollback per window, kitty graphics and keyboard protocol support, and sixel passthrough.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Themes
- The documentation describes 342 built-in themes and an in-app settings page.checked 7 Oct 2001
Where it runs
- Remote machines
- Users can add another machine as a host and attach to its sessions or run a pane there.checked 7 Oct 2001
- Supported platforms
- The project provides prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows and FreeBSD.checked 7 Oct 2001
