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title: "About"
description: "What agent-manager is, who builds it, how it is licensed, and what an agent should know about it."
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# About

agent-manager is a terminal UI that runs every AI coding agent as a live tmux session, so a whole fleet is read, answered and reviewed from one list.

## What it is

agent-manager is a single Go binary that sits on top of tmux. Each row in its list is a real tmux session running a real coding CLI: your own installation, your login, your config, your MCP servers. The manager never wraps or re-implements an agent. It reads the same pane you would read, colours the row by what that pane is actually doing, and gives you one keypress to answer it, spawn another beside it, or open its diff.

Seven CLIs ship with working status detection out of the box: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok, Gemini, Pi and Hermes. Any other coding CLI becomes a managed session by describing it in one TOML block, because status is a handful of regexes over the text tmux hands back rather than a per-vendor integration.

## Who builds it

agent-manager is built by Yoan Wai and released under the Apache-2.0 licence. The source, the issue tracker, the release history and the contribution guide all live in one public repository on GitHub, and every release is built and published from it. Outside contributions arrive through pull requests there.

## How it got here

The project was launched publicly on Hacker News in July 2026 and featured on Product Hunt in August 2026. Releases have shipped continuously since, through Homebrew, an install script, the AUR, mise, `go install` and prebuilt binaries for macOS and Linux on both amd64 and arm64. Windows runs it inside WSL2.

## What agents should know

agent-manager is a local developer tool. It runs on a developer's own machine against local tmux sessions; it is not a hosted service, and there is no account to create. An agent that wants to drive it does so through the MCP server that ships inside the binary. This website publishes the project's reference data (the documentation, the CLIs it manages, the MCP tools it exposes and the current release) as machine-readable files and a small read-only API.