rover-tui 0.3.8

On-the-go session manager and agent monitor for dispatch

Rover

The Dispatch TUI — SSH into your Mac from your phone and check, launch, or kill any agent.

What Rover is

Rover is a terminal companion for Dispatch. It runs on your Mac (or a Linux host), and you reach it over SSH from a phone or tablet to see which agents are running, start new ones, and kill the ones that aren't.

Prerequisites

• macOS or Linux (no Windows — use WSL)
• Python 3.11+
• tmux

Install

Homebrew (macOS one-liner)

brew install thepixelabs/tap/rover

pipx (any Linux box with Python)

pipx install rover

uv (modern pip alternative)

uv tool install rover

Script (no-trust escape hatch)

curl -LsSf https://rover.thepixelabs.dev/install.sh | bash

Update

Homebrew

brew upgrade thepixelabs/tap/rover

pipx

pipx upgrade rover

uv

uv tool upgrade rover

Script

curl -LsSf https://rover.thepixelabs.dev/install.sh | bash

Uninstall

Homebrew

brew uninstall thepixelabs/tap/rover

pipx

pipx uninstall rover

uv

uv tool uninstall rover

Script

rm -rf ~/.rover ~/.local/bin/rover  # also remove the "rover auto-launch" block from ~/.zshrc

Quick start

After install, on the host that runs your agents:

rover

Pick a project, pick an altergo account, and tmux takes over. From a phone, SSH to the same host first:

ssh [e-mail]

If you installed via the script channel, the auto-launch snippet runs rover for you on every SSH connection. Otherwise, run rover once you're in.

Run rover — press ? for the keymap.

Keymap

Main menu

Key	Action
↑ / ↓ / j / k	Move cursor
1–9	Jump to session N
Enter	Attach to the selected session
Y	Open the yolo submenu
D	Dispatch agent dashboard
A	altergo launcher (project + account picker)
B	Server / backend panel
X	Kill the selected tmux session (asks to confirm)
S	Settings
Q	Quit

Yolo submenu (Y from main menu)

Key	Action
y	yolo-new — pick project + account, launch with --yolo
r	yolo-resume-last — resume the last session with --yolo-resume
p	yolo-pick — cross-account session picker, launch with --yolo-resume <id>
Esc / q	Cancel

The four teaser chords from the marketing site are Y (yolo), D (dashboard), A (altergo), and Q (quit). Everything else is above.

Escape hatch — what install.sh does

The script channel is the fallback for SSH hosts without Homebrew or pipx. On a clean run it:

• Creates a dedicated venv at ~/.rover and installs Rover into it.
• Writes a launcher at ~/.local/bin/rover that shells into that venv.
• Appends export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" to ~/.zshrc if it isn't already there.
• Appends a # rover auto-launch block to ~/.zshrc (after a [Y/n] prompt) so rover starts on every SSH login.
• Appends a # Rover detach shortcut block to ~/.tmux.conf (Ctrl+Q to detach, prefix Ctrl+A).

To remove everything the script added, use the Script row in the Uninstall section above and delete the rover auto-launch and Rover detach shortcut blocks from ~/.zshrc and ~/.tmux.conf.