Alternatives to cmux
cmux is an agent skill by davidondrej: Control the cmux macOS terminal app: workspaces, panes, surfaces, browsers, notifications, settings, and hooks. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match cmux and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. global-agent-guardrails leads the list (repository has 4.2K stars; active in the last 30 days). 1 of them is published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with cmux.
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cmux
Control the cmux macOS terminal app: workspaces, panes, surfaces, browsers, notifications, settings, and hooks.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches cmux (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1global-agent-guardrails
davidondrej
Configure the shared guard against catastrophic shell commands in local AI agents.
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2terminal-title
bluzername
Automatically updates the terminal window title to reflect the current high-level task.
- Supports bash
★ 143Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3ci-watch
nubjs
Watch GitHub Actions CI correctly with the gh CLI — block until a run / PR check rollup is TRULY terminal, then trust the exit code.
- Largest repository here (4,417 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 4.4KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4herdr-operations
espennilsen
Use when inspecting or operating Herdr sessions, workspaces, tabs, panes, agents, terminal output, agent messaging, or waits.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 122Last active Aug 3, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 5resend-cli
resendOfficial
Operate the Resend platform from the terminal — send emails (including React Email .tsx templates via --react-email), manage domains, contacts, broadcasts…
- Published by the vendor
★ 205Last active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6cli-design
caarlos0
Design and review command-line interfaces for usability, automation, safety, accessibility, and long-term compatibility.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 224Last active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7tui-design
caarlos0
Design terminal user interfaces and interactive CLIs that stay usable, accessible, and scriptable.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 224Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8building-glamorous-tuis
Dicklesworthstone
Build terminal UIs with Charmbracelet (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Gum).
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 207Last active Oct 3, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9tlgr
tlgrcli
Read and act on a personal Telegram account from the terminal with the tlgr CLI (MTProto user account, not a bot).
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 197Last active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10doca-pcc-counters
NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>
Use this skill when the user is invoking the DOCA PCC Counters tool — the `pcc_counters.sh` bash script under the DOCA tools directory — to arm and read the…
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11doca-telemetry-utils
NVIDIA <doca@nvidia.com>
doca_telemetry_utils command line on a host with DOCA: discover the diagnostic-counter schema, translate counter names to binary Data IDs and back, and check…
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12in-context-action-learning
robot-agent-exploration
Infer task goals and a useful strategy from visual demonstrations (an image sequence of a human or robot completing the task, or a terminal-state image), and…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 184Last active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet