# libtmux for Common Lisp

> The Common Lisp library (libtmux). These pages include its guides, tested examples and API documentation.

## Common Lisp API reference

- [API glossary](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/reference/glossary/): Kinds, modifiers and package labels in the Common Lisp API reference.

## Common Lisp Workspace Manager

- [tmux workspace manager, built in Common Lisp, is source-only](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/workspace/): Validate, plan, and explicitly apply bounded JSON workspaces with the native Common Lisp engine.
- [Workspace API reference](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/workspace/reference/): Native Common Lisp functions, conditions, plans, and results for bounded JSON workspaces.

## Common Lisp Workspace Manager API reference

- [API glossary](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/workspace/reference/glossary/): Kinds, modifiers and package labels in the Common Lisp API reference.

## Concepts

- [Captures and identity](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/concepts/captures/): Captures and identity: libtmux documentation.
- [Concepts](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/concepts/): Concepts for libtmux.
- [Transport and cleanup](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/concepts/transport/): Transport and cleanup: libtmux documentation.

## Core

- [tmux client library for Common Lisp](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/core/): tmux client library for Common Lisp. Control tmux, navigate sessions, windows, and panes, send keys, capture pane contents

## Examples

- [Examples](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/examples/): Examples for libtmux.
- [Capture pane output](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/examples/capture-pane-output/): Run one Common Lisp program that creates, captures, and cleans up an isolated tmux server.

## Guides

- [Getting started](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/getting-started/): Getting started: libtmux documentation.
- [Guides](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/): Guides for libtmux.
- [Attaching to tmux](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/attaching-to-tmux/): Inspect an existing tmux server from a standalone Common Lisp program, with an owned demo fixture.
- [REPL tutorial](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/tutorial/): REPL tutorial: libtmux documentation.
- [Workspace guide](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/workspace/source-guide/): Workspace guide: libtmux documentation.
- [Native queries](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/queries/): Native queries: libtmux documentation.
- [Explicit operations](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/operations/): Explicit operations: libtmux documentation.
- [Capabilities and limits](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/capabilities/): Capabilities and limits: libtmux documentation.
- [Testing](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/testing/): Testing: libtmux documentation.
- [Verification evidence](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/guides/verification/): Verification evidence: libtmux documentation.

## Linking and consuming our docs

- [Linking and consuming our docs](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/meta/linking/): Find documentation exports for search engines, bots, LLMs and other documentation sites.
- [Link to libtmux from Sphinx](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/meta/intersphinx/): Use Intersphinx inventories to reference libtmux APIs and documentation.
- [Intersphinx examples](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/meta/intersphinx/examples/): Compare Sphinx and MyST references to APIs, tmux C declarations, hooks, format variables, CLI commands and schema fields.

## Meta

- [AI policy](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/meta/ai-policy/): Use the libtmux packages with AI tools. When contributing, check what you submit and wait for a maintainer's invitation before preparing a pull request.
- [Third-party notices](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/meta/third-party-notices/): Thanks to tmux's creator and contributors, with licences and attribution for the software behind libtmux.org.

## Topics

- [Query interchange](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/topics/query-interchange/): Query interchange: libtmux documentation.
- [Topics](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/topics/): Topics for libtmux.

## Reference

- [Common Lisp API reference](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/reference/): every public symbol, generated from the source. Hosted on libtmux.org.

## Optional

- [Full documentation text](https://libtmux.org/en/lisp/latest/llms-full.txt): guides and MCP contracts in a single fetch.