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Bentomux against the field
A terminal gives you a place to type. A multiplexer gives you a grid of them. Bentomux is a native window that knows what is running in each pane — and what it is asking you for.
Scrolls sideways on a phone.
Why Bentomux
How it stacks up
What Bentomux does that a terminal or a multiplexer does not — and where the two of you are simply the same.
| Feature | Bentomux | Terminal tabs | tmux |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knows which agent is runningLabels the pane from the CLI it detects, without you saying what it is | Yes | No | No |
| Reads what the agent is doingWorking, blocked or idle, from what the CLI is actually doing | Yes | No | No |
| Approval prompts you can actually seeA permission request raises a window instead of scrolling past in a hidden pane | Yes | No | No |
| Check on a run from your phoneWatch panes and answer a prompt from any browser | Yes | No | No |
| Git without leaving the windowBranch, changed files, syntax-highlighted diffs, history and push | Yes | No | No |
| Extend it yourselfContribute buttons, panels, tabs, modals and services from a plugin | Yes | No | Plugin required |
| Split panesDivide the window into panes you can drag and size | Yes | No | Yes |
| Sessions survive a quitAgents still running when you come back, no config file to set up first | Yes | No | Yes |
| Native windowReal app chrome on macOS, Windows and Linux | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free & open source | Yes | Yes | Yes |
A window, not tabs in a terminal.
Bentomux is a native app — layout, panes and split borders persist as UI, not as a terminal you have to configure.
It knows what a pane is running.
Twenty-one agent CLIs are detected and labelled. Nine have a dedicated adapter, which is what makes live state and approval handling possible instead of guesswork.
Persists without config.
A background process holds the terminals, so quitting the app does not kill your agents. Reopen and the same panes are back — no tmux.conf, no rescue script.
You can leave the room.
Turn on the remote monitor, scan a QR code, and watch the panes or answer an approval prompt from your phone.
Free and open source.
MIT licensed. Inspect, fork, contribute.
One-liners, for deciding fast
Bentomux vs terminal tabs
A tab cannot tell you what is running in it. Bentomux labels the pane, reads what the agent is doing, and surfaces a permission request instead of letting it scroll away.
Bentomux vs tmux
tmux already splits panes and keeps sessions alive — Bentomux matches both, with no tmux.conf to write. What it adds on top is a native window that knows what an agent is.
Bentomux vs manager apps
Manager apps put worktrees and review queues in a window. Bentomux is the window itself.
A calm window, not another tab.
Same terminal, same agents — they just stop being a scatter of tabs.