tabmancer

A dashboard for your coding-agent sessions, in the terminal: Claude Code first, Codex and Antigravity if you use them. See every recent session from every project and what the open ones are doing right now, which one waits for you, and how full each one's context is. Run a team of sessions that talk to each other. And after a reboot or a crash, call back the sessions you had open, each in its own tab and folder; the ones cut off mid-reply carry on by themselves.

Try it

uvx tabmancer --demo         # made-up sessions: nothing of yours is read or changed

Every key works in the demo, but nothing opens and no model is asked. Then install it:

uv tool install tabmancer    # or: pipx install tabmancer
tabmancer                    # the dashboard

It needs Python 3.10+ and Claude Code's claude on your PATH. Upgrade it with uv tool upgrade tabmancer (or pipx upgrade tabmancer): the dashboard says when a newer version is out (updating). ? lists every key and runs the one you pick; the footer shows the common ones and what they do on the row you are on. On Windows, tabmancer shortcut adds a desktop shortcut and tabmancer startup on opens the picker at login when sessions were left open.

What it does

• Calls your sessions back. After a reboot or a crash, the sessions that were open start out ticked: Enter opens each in its own tab and folder, and the ones cut off mid-task are told to carry on. Resume, fork or start fresh, per session.
• Shows what each one is doing. Working, waiting for you or needing you; how each closed one ended (done, stopped, cut off, unanswered, at a usage limit); how full every context is; your plan limits in the top bar. j goes to the next one waiting for you.
• Gets past a usage limit. Sessions stopped at a limit say when it lifts; c continues them all then, or right away once you have signed in with another account.
• Runs teams. Several sessions on one project with an orchestrator, talking through Claude Code's own messaging between sessions: one row in the list, and a view of who tells whom what.
• Hands crowded sessions over. h moves the work to a fresh session, with a full handover as its first message.
• Counts. Tokens, when you work, tools and files, plan limits with a forecast, and a written report of the week to share.
• Finds. / finds a session by anything you or Claude said in it.
• Codex and Antigravity too, if you use them.

Everything it does, and the details: using it (what each status means, every key, writing to a session, background sessions, workspaces) · teams · handing over · stats and reports · setup and commands · how it works

Keys

All the keys.

Where it runs

Built and used every day on Windows 11 with Windows Terminal: tabs, going to a session's tab, start at login, desktop notifications and a desktop shortcut. On Linux, tabs open in tmux (tried for real), WezTerm, kitty, GNOME Terminal and Konsole; on macOS in iTerm2 and Terminal.app, which have not been tried on a real Mac yet. In any other terminal, tabmancer prints the commands to run. What has been tried where. Reports are welcome.

Claude Code's formats are its own and can change between releases: after an update, tabmancer doctor checks that everything tabmancer relies on still works.

Privacy

tabmancer runs on your machine and talks to no server of its own. It reads the transcripts the agents already keep (~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.gemini) and asks the claude CLI which sessions are open and how full your plan limits are (/usage, a local command). It reads which account you are signed in with (its email and plan) from ~/.claude.json and Codex's auth.json, to show it in the top bar, and remembers the emails of the Claude accounts it has seen, in its own folder, to offer them when you switch (A). Once a day it asks PyPI which version of tabmancer is the latest, to tell you of a newer one (tabmancer updates off stops it). A model is called only when you ask for one, through your own CLI and plan: an AI summary (s), a handover (h), a report (r in the stats). It types into an open session only when you have it continue the ones stopped at a usage limit (c). Nothing is sent anywhere else, and there is no telemetry.

Trademarks

tabmancer is an independent project, not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity are their owners' trademarks; they are named here only to say what tabmancer works with.

License

The code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0: keep the NOTICE with it and credit "tabmancer by Sinan Tüfekci". Bit, the robot, is licensed under CC BY 4.0: wherever you use it, credit "Bit by Sinan Tüfekci". Not affiliated with Anthropic.