Show HN: Thurbox – A tmux-based TUI and CLI for local AI agent orchestration
Thurbox is a tmux-based terminal user interface and CLI designed to orchestrate multiple local AI coding agents simultaneously. It isolates each agent in its own persistent tmux session and git worktree to prevent conflicts and ensure tasks survive system restarts. The tool is fully agent-neutral and highly customizable, allowing users to modify its interface and behavior through Lua scripts without recompiling the binary.
- ▪Thurbox allows users to run multiple coding agents like Claude Code and Codex side-by-side in a single terminal environment.
- ▪Each agent operates within its own persistent tmux session and git worktree, ensuring they do not interfere with each other's code changes.
- ▪The application is agent-neutral, launching vendor CLIs unmodified so users can access new features as soon as they are released by the providers.
- ▪The user interface is entirely defined by Lua files in a user-owned directory, enabling real-time customization and extension without code compilation.
- ▪Thurbox supports advanced features such as remote SSH sessions, inter-agent messaging, and a headless CLI for automated session management.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Thurbeen/thurbox |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:25:49 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T01:38:37.641Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T01:38:37.641Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RbU8AKNlj5fQ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Thurbox Run several coding agents at once — Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, opencode, aider, or any CLI you describe yourself — side by side in one terminal. Each gets its own persistent tmux session and its own git worktree, so they never fight over your checkout, and they survive crashes, restarts and reboots. Quit thurbox and every agent keeps working; relaunch and they are all still there. Thurbox is agent-neutral. It launches the vendor CLI unmodified and knows nothing about its model, prompts or tools, so you get new agent features the day the CLI ships them. And the interface is not compiled in: every pane you see, the session list included, is a Lua file in a directory you own — move it, turn it off, rewrite it, or install one somebody else wrote.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.