_{On macOS, app shortcuts live on ⌘ instead of Ctrl (so Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, and friends pass through to the shell as you'd expect).}

Terminal — xterm.js + WebGL, native PTY (ConPTY on Windows, forkpty on macOS), Unicode 11 width tables, split panes, tabs, floating pane, smart right-click (selection→copy / empty→paste / link menu), scroll bookmarks, Vi copy mode, regex search, 999K scrollback with disk persistence, shell integration (OSC 133) for semantic command boundaries (Constrained Language Mode safe).

Keybindings — Tmux-style prefix mode (Ctrl+B, 13 default actions), fully customizable, reset-to-defaults.

Workspaces — drag-and-drop sidebar, Ctrl+1~9 quick switch, multiview, layout templates, full session persistence (layout / tabs / cwd / scrollback), Fleet View cockpit.

Browser + CDP — built-in panel (Ctrl+Shift+L), nav bar / DevTools / back-forward, element Inspector (hover-highlight, click-to-copy LLM context), full automation: click / fill / type / screenshot / JS eval / key press.

Notifications — output-throughput activity detection (not pattern matching, works with any agent), native OS toasts + taskbar flash (Windows) / Dock & menu-bar tray (macOS), process-exit alerts, notification panel (Ctrl+I), Web Audio cues.

Agent detection — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI. Detects start → activates monitoring, warns on critical actions.

Task journey (fan-out → diff → PR) — spawn up to 8 WorkTask missions from one prompt, each with a dedicated git worktree on a fresh wtask/* branch, its own task workspace, a private mission channel, and a file-backed initial prompt. Idempotency-keyed end to end; per-task failures compensate individually, and worktrees are preserved — never force-deleted. Harvest through a diff surface (file tree, unified diff, per-hunk checkboxes; adoption is a single all-or-nothing git apply gated by a target snapshot so the target is fully changed or fully untouched), comment straight into the mission channel, then close the task (the worktree is removed only after a clean check — dirty output is preserved and the close is held) or open a PR with one click (gh-gated, idempotent re-entry). A palette cleanup list scans the worktree root for leftovers, and missions show up in the sidebar and fleet panel.

Multi-agent (A2A) — agent-to-agent messaging + task delegation addressed by pane/surface, same-workspace and cross-workspace. Per-pane execute approval gate (a remote agent can't spawn a bypassPermissions worker in your workspace without your approval). Symmetric reply (a reply returns to the exact pane that asked), pollable task inbox on the EventBus, broadcast, and a unified approval inbox in Fleet View.

Channels — Slack-style rooms for a workspace's agents: create / join / invite / post / read / archive, each message carrying a server-verified sender — shown as the sender's pane identity chip plus a per-workspace color badge, so you can tell agents apart at a glance. A durable per-member inbox (unread + @-mention counts, survives reboot), a human-readable right-side dock, and a headless wmux channel CLI (unread / read / post / ack / join / list) so a nudged agent can catch up and reply.

Supervision & wmux.json — declare panes/agents in a trust-gated wmux.json (auto-layout + custom commands). The daemon supervises declared agent panes like an init system: restart policy with backoff across process exits, daemon restarts, and full reboots, with a runaway-crash guard — and it resumes the exact agent conversation on restart, not a fresh shell.

Plugins — sandboxed iframe plugin host with a bridge + explicit permission model and pane decorations.

Daemon — background session management (survives app restart), scrollback dump + auto-recovery, start-at-login registration on Windows and macOS (relaunches after reboot), dead-session TTL reaping.

MCP tools — browser_* (open / navigate / screenshot / snapshot / click / fill / type / evaluate / press_key), terminal_read / terminal_read_events (OSC 133) / terminal_send / terminal_send_key, workspace_list / surface_list / surface_new / pane_list / pane_split / pane_close / pane_focus, channel_* (create / post / read / ack / invite / join / list), a2a_* agent-to-agent + task delegation, company_a2a_*, wmux_events_poll / wmux_search_panes. Every browser tool takes a surfaceId so each session drives its own browser.

Is wmux a tmux port? No — tmux was the inspiration, not the base. wmux is a native workspace multiplexer on Electron (ConPTY on Windows, forkpty on macOS): tmux-style split panes, prefix keys, and session persistence, but it also multiplexes agents, git worktrees, a browser, and channels. No WSL / Cygwin / MSYS2.

Which Macs are supported? Apple Silicon (arm64) — download the .dmg from releases. It is Developer ID signed, notarized and stapled, so Gatekeeper lets it through on first launch. Intel builds aren't produced right now; open an issue if you need one.

Can I reach my panes from my phone? Yes — wmux web serves your live panes to a browser (PWA-installable). It is read-only and loopback-only by default; --allow-input and --expose are explicit opt-ins, and even read-only shows a pane's full scrollback to whoever can reach the port, so keep it behind Tailscale rather than the open internet.

Works with Claude Code / Codex / Gemini? Yes. wmux auto-detects them and registers an MCP server so they can drive the browser and read terminal output.

Multiple agents at once? Yes. Each pane is an independent PTY, and agents coordinate over A2A MCP tools — message each other, delegate tasks by pane, reply to the exact pane that asked, and gate any cross-agent code execution behind your approval.

Feels heavy, or a workspace switch is slow? See docs/performance.md — what runs while a pane is hidden, the daemon's config.json knobs, and how to self-diagnose with wmux doctor.

"Windows protected your PC" warning? The release pipeline already signs Setup.exe through SignPath, but with a test certificate while the SignPath Foundation OSS certificate is pending — Windows does not trust it, so SmartScreen still reports an unknown publisher. It's safe: click More info → Run anyway, or install via winget / Chocolatey to skip the prompt.

Installer blocked with no "Run anyway"? Smart App Control (SAC) on Windows 11 can block unsigned binaries outright. Check with Get-MpComputerStatus | Select-Object SmartAppControlState. SAC uses cloud reputation, so blocks are often transient — retry later, use winget/choco, or build from source (#200).

PowerShell one-liner (downloads the prebuilt Setup.exe, verifies SHA-256, no build tools):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwong2kim/wmux/main/install.ps1 | iex