The Tmux MCP Server enables AI assistants to seamlessly control and interact with tmux terminal sessions through API calls.
Session Management: List, search, create, and kill tmux sessions by name or ID.
Window Management: List windows within sessions, create new windows with custom names, and kill existing windows.
Pane Operations: List panes within windows, capture pane content with configurable line count and optional color preservation, split panes horizontally or vertically with customizable sizes, and kill panes.
Command Execution: Run commands in specific panes and retrieve results, with support for interactive applications using raw mode.
Provides tools for listing, navigating, and interacting with tmux sessions, windows and panes. Enables capturing terminal content, executing commands in panes, and creating new tmux sessions and windows.
Tmux MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server that enables Claude Desktop to interact with and view tmux session content. This integration allows AI assistants to read from, control, and observe your terminal sessions.
Features
List and search tmux sessions
View and navigate tmux windows and panes
Capture and expose terminal content from any pane
Execute commands in tmux panes and retrieve results (use it at your own risk ⚠️)
Create new tmux sessions and windows
Check out this short video to get excited!
Related MCP server: PopUI
Prerequisites
Node.js
tmux installed and running
Usage
Configure Claude Desktop
Add this MCP server to your Claude Desktop configuration:
MCP server options
You can optionally specify the command line shell you are using, if unspecified it defaults to bash
The MCP server needs to know the shell only when executing commands, to properly read its exit status.
Available Resources
tmux://sessions- List all tmux sessionstmux://pane/{paneId}- View content of a specific tmux panetmux://command/{commandId}/result- Results from executed commands
Available Tools
list-sessions- List all active tmux sessionsfind-session- Find a tmux session by namelist-windows- List windows in a tmux sessionlist-panes- List panes in a tmux windowcapture-pane- Capture content from a tmux panecreate-session- Create a new tmux sessioncreate-window- Create a new window in a tmux sessionexecute-command- Execute a command in a tmux paneget-command-result- Get the result of an executed command