AI Agents
Muxy recognizes AI coding agents running in its terminals and shows whether each one is working, waiting for you, or done. It needs no setup, hooks, or plugins, and works while no app is open.
Supported agents
Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Droid, Grok, Kiro, Oh My Pi, OpenCode, Pi, and Xal.
The server spots them from the running program and what's on screen. Recognition is best effort.
Oh My Pi detection reads its OSC terminal-title run state: a spinner while
working, ! when waiting, and > when idle. It also recognizes optional OSC
progress reports, ⎋ working messages, and the older Working… [esc] spinner.
In omp --print sessions, a final non-empty
Working... line signals work; once output follows it, that progress line
no longer keeps the session busy. Detection uses terminal escape sequences
and screen text, so disabling or customizing these signals can affect recognition.
For foreground omp and oh-my-pi processes, automatic terminal titles omit
the leading π prefix. The provider icon remains visible, and custom tab
titles are unchanged.
States
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Working | The agent is busy. |
| Waiting | The agent needs your input. |
| Idle | The agent is done or not doing anything. |
Tabs, worktrees, and projects show the agent's icon and state. When several agents run, "waiting" wins.
Notifications
The desktop app sends a macOS notification when an agent needs your attention or finishes working.
- No notification is shown for the pane you are looking at, or for detached terminals.
- Looking at the terminal clears the alert in every app.
- Clicking a notification jumps to its pane.
- Only one app notifies, so alerts are never doubled.
- Turn notifications off in System Settings → Notifications → Muxy.
Alerts live in memory on the server, at most one per terminal. Restarting the server clears them.
Agents panel
Cmd+Opt+A shows the agents panel, focuses it, and hides it once it has
focus. Use the arrow keys and Return to open a row.
- It sits at the bottom of the expanded sidebar; drag its top edge to make it taller or shorter. With the sidebar collapsed it opens as a popup that closes when you click elsewhere. Once you have shown the panel, the collapsed sidebar keeps a button for it until you hide it.
- Move to Right docks it in the right panel, even when the left sidebar is
collapsed. Drag its left edge to resize it; Muxy remembers the side and width.
It shares this area with extension panels and the panel-mode composer: opening
one replaces the other. Use
Cmd+Opt+Ato bring Agents back. Move to Left Sidebar returns it to the sidebar. - Detach floats it over the workspace. Drag its header to move it and its edges or corner to resize it; Muxy remembers where. Reattach to Sidebar or Reattach to Right Panel docks it on its last side. The other side's move button is also available while floating.
- Settings → Appearance → Agents panel rows lists each agent, grouped as needs input, working, completed, and idle, where Return opens its pane; or each project and worktree running agents, with counts, where Return opens the worktree.
Agents Focused sidebar
Choose Agents Focused from the sidebar layout menu to list only the tabs that run an agent.
From a shell and extensions
muxy activity list --jsonprints agent status and unread alerts as JSON.muxy activity ack <event-id>clears alerts.- Extensions get the
agent.statusevent andmuxy.agents.list(). See Events.