--- title: Tabs stop working once you're running more than one agent description: nodeterm is a macOS terminal multiplexer that replaces the traditional tab stack with an infinite pan/zoom canvas where each shell session is a draggable node.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tabs-stop-working-once-you-re-running-more-than-one-agent-t1jmrnomy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tabs stop working once you're running more than one agent | daily.dev og:description: nodeterm is a macOS terminal multiplexer that replaces the traditional tab stack with an infinite pan/zoom canvas where each shell session is a draggable node.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tabs-stop-working-once-you-re-running-more-than-one-agent-t1jmrnomy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/T1JMrNoMy.png og:image:alt: Tabs stop working once you're running more than one agent og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tabs stop working once you're running more than one agent **[Izzy](https://daily.dev/sources/g8nf9zcvpk5ydkte4cyzg)** · [@iizzyy](https://daily.dev/iizzyy) · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary nodeterm is a macOS terminal multiplexer that replaces the traditional tab stack with an infinite pan/zoom canvas where each shell session is a draggable node. Built on tmux for session persistence, it adds hook-driven status badges (RUNNING, NEEDS YOU), subagent cards with live transcripts, a context-window meter, and cross-agent transcript sharing — all aimed at developers running multiple AI coding agents simultaneously. Currently at v0.2.9, macOS-only, unsigned, and licensed under BUSL-1.1 (flips to MIT after four years). Six GitHub stars — very early stage. ## Content Stacked terminal tabs hide what's running where. And it gets worse the more agents you run. I live inside Claude Code most of the day. Tabs don't scale past a couple of sessions. You lose the map. nodeterm swaps the tab stack for an infinite pan/zoom canvas. Every shell is a draggable node. Agent nodes (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) sit next to sticky notes, a Monaco editor, and a git diff panel on the same board. Three things that stood out: **tmux underneath.** Sessions survive node remounts and full app restarts, including live processes. Reboot, come back, still running. **Hook-driven status, not output scraping.** RUNNING and NEEDS YOU badges, subagent cards with live transcripts, a context-window meter. It reads hooks instead of from text. **The context links between agents.** Two agent nodes can read each other's transcript on demand. If you're wiring multi-agent work, that's the part that matters. Where it still leaks: macOS only. v0.2.9. Unsigned, so Gatekeeper yells at you on first launch. BUSL-1.1, not MIT (each release flips to MIT four years later). Six stars. This is early. Still the sharpest take I've seen on the real problem: your terminals are a map, not a stack. Anyone else moved off tabs for agent work? Tell me what you're running. 🔗 https://github.com/eneskirca/nodeterm ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [macOS desktop app to manage 20\+ AI coding agents at once - ClawTab](https://daily.dev/posts/macos-desktop-app-to-manage-20-ai-coding-agents-at-once---clawtab-kdgpytx69) · Product Hunt · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tabs-stop-working-once-you-re-running-more-than-one-agent-t1jmrnomy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/tabs-stop-working-once-you-re-running-more-than-one-agent-t1jmrnomy","headline":"Tabs stop working once you're running more than one agent","text":"nodeterm is a macOS terminal multiplexer that replaces the traditional tab stack with an infinite pan/zoom canvas where each shell session is a draggable node. 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