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muxplex-client

Typed sync/async HTTP client for the muxplex tmux-session-dashboard API.

Ships as its own PyPI distribution (import name muxplex_client) so a consumer that only needs to make ~12 HTTP calls -- a Stream Deck sidecar, an Amplifier tool module -- never has to install the server's dependencies (fastapi, uvicorn, python-pam, ...) or its muxplex server console script. See ../muxplex-client-design.md for the full design rationale.

Install

pip install muxplex-client

Runtime dependency: httpx>=0.27.0. Nothing else -- no muxplex server dependency, no console script installed.

Usage

Synchronous:

from muxplex_client import MuxplexClient

with MuxplexClient("https://your-server:8088", "federation-key") as client:
    for session in client.sessions():
        if session.bell.needs_attention:
            print(f"{session.name} needs attention")

Asynchronous (Amplifier tool modules, or any asyncio caller):

from muxplex_client import AsyncMuxplexClient

async with AsyncMuxplexClient("https://your-server:8088", "federation-key") as client:
    result = await client.run_shell_command("my-session", "pytest -q")
    print(result.exit_code, result.elapsed)

A localhost caller needs no credential -- federation_key=None is the default and is fine when running on the same host as the server.

What's in here vs. what isn't

See muxplex-client-design.md §3 for the full included/excluded endpoint table and rationale. Notably excluded: PATCH /api/settings (highest blast-radius operation in the API; a v2 concern requiring CAS + 409 retry + backstop discrimination), all federation endpoints (server-to-server protocol, no client consumer), and /api/internal/setup-hooks (internal, self-healing as of server v0.18.0).

Version alignment

muxplex_client.__version__ is cut in lockstep with the muxplex server version -- one vX.Y.Z tag publishes both wheels. This is provenance ("cut against server X"), not a runtime requirement: the client declares no dependency on the muxplex package and enforces no version at runtime. MIN_SERVER_VERSION backs an opt-in check_server() helper the caller may call; it is never invoked automatically.

The load-bearing correctness mechanism is muxplex/tests/test_client_contract.py, living in the server's own test suite: it drives this client over httpx.ASGITransport against the real FastAPI app and asserts every field the client parses actually exists on the real response, that mirrored constants (KNOWN_KEYS, MAX_CAPTURE_LINES, DEFAULT_CAPTURE_LINES) equal their server originals, and that Bell.needs_attention agrees with the server's own predicate across a truth table.

The shell-command sentinel

run_shell_command() (and the lower-level muxplex_client.sentinel module) implements the completion-detection convention from AGENT_GUIDE.md §6.2/§6.4: wrap a command with ; rc=$?; ... ; echo "MUXPLEX_DONE_<token>_EXIT_$rc" and poll the pane for the marker.

This assumes the target pane is an idle POSIX shell prompt. It is not a general HTTP contract -- it fails (types a garbage line into whatever is actually running, then hangs until timeout) against vim, a REPL, less, a TUI, an ssh session, or a non-POSIX shell without a matching exit_expr.

The one correctness rule worth calling out explicitly: matching must be digit-anchored (MUXPLEX_DONE_<token>_EXIT_(\d+)), never a bare-token substring check. tmux echoes the literal, unexpanded ...EXIT_$? into the pane the instant you send the line -- before the shell has even run it -- so a bare-token match reports "done" with a bogus exit code immediately. See muxplex_client/sentinel.py's docstring and tests/test_sentinel.py's digit-anchor regression test.

Development

uv sync --extra dev   # from this directory, or from the repo root via the
                       # [tool.uv.workspace] declaration
uv run pytest

tests/ is pure -- no network, no server import, and passes with muxplex not installed at all.

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