Use Case
Claude Code within tmux is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Manage Claude Code instances living inside tmux sessions. Users usually create separate tmux sessions for separate projects. Use this skill when you need to read the latest Claude Code response in a particular tmux session / project, send it a prompt and get the response, or run /compact directly via tmux (no extra scripts required). This guide walks you through installing Claude Code within tmux, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Claude Code within tmux: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install claude-tmux
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to product manager to trigger Claude Code within tmux
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Claude Code within tmux with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Claude Code within tmux
Help me get started with Claude Code within tmux
What can Claude Code within tmux do for my product manager workflow?
Show me an example of using Claude Code within tmux
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install claude-tmuxOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install claude-tmuxβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/claude-tmux/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.