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claude-code-tools
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pchalasani / claude-code-tools

claude-code-tools

Practical productivity tools for Claude Code, Codex-CLI, and similar CLI coding agents.

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Practical productivity tools for Claude Code, Codex-CLI, and similar CLI coding agents.

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What Hacker News says

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I recently dove into Tmux just to be able to combine it with Claude-Code(CC): allowing CC to watch and interact with a CLI application in a separate pane. A nice feature of tmux is that it is scriptable, I.e allows programmatically sending keystrokes to a specific pane. So I built this little tool "tmux-cli" that creates a convenient, safe wrapper (that prevents self-killing, and has built-in delays for Enter key, etc) around tmux that lets CC spawn another pane, launch a CLI script and actually interact with it. This gives CC some interesting abilities: interact with CLI scripts expecting user input; spawn another instance of CC and give it a task (like sub-agents but fully-visible); launch a CLI script with a debugger like Pdb and stepping thru it; launch UI servers and use Puppeteer MCP to check the browser. It's easy to install via uv
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: uv tool install claude-code-tools https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools
In Customizing tmux
Beyond just running CLI commands, you can have CC interact with those, e.g I built this little tool that gives CC a Tmux-cli command (a convenience wrapper around Tmux) that lets it interact with CLI applications and monitor them etc: https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools For example this lets CC spawn another CC instance and give it a task (way better than the built-in spawn-and-let-go black box), or interact with CLI scripts that expect user input, or use debuggers like Pdb for token-efficient debugging and code-understanding, etc.
In 6 weeks of Claude Code
I learned about Tmux just a few weeks ago and found out that one of the nifty features is that it is scriptable, I.e allows programmatically sending keystrokes to a specific pane. Then, inspired by some Japanese forums I asked myself if I can leverage this to have Claude Code actually interact with an interactive CLI script — we know CC can launch a script via bash but if said script waits for user input then CC can’t (easily) interact with it. Turns out yes we can leverage Tmux for this! So I used Claude Code to build a little el tool called Tmux-cli, which gives a convenient way to have CC (or any CLI coding agent for that matter) spawn a Tmux Pane, launch a script there, and actually interact with it. So it’s like Playwright/Puppeteer for the terminal. You can get it via uv tool install claude-code-tools https://github.com/pchalas
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ani/claude-code-tools There are some interesting possibilities this enables: Let CC autonomously test interactive CLI scripts, without me having to intervene and point out errors. Have the CLI coding agent launch UI from another pane and then use Puppeteer MCP to test from a browser. Let CC launch a cli script with a debugger enabled (e.g. Pdb) and set breakpoints etc — for token-efficient code understanding, debugging and explaining. Let the CLI coding agent spawn and drive another instance of the same or other CLI coding agent, AND interact with it. Note this is way better than CC sub-agents which are “spawn and let go” black-boxes. I wonder if the discussed Tmux alternatives enable building this type of tool.
In Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

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