Tools

Create a new tmux session.

Get information about the tmux server.

Kill the tmux server and all its sessions.

Discover live tmux servers under the current user’s $TMUX_TMPDIR.

List tmux sessions (terminal workspaces) on a tmux server.

Create a new window in a tmux session.

Return metadata for a single tmux session (ID, name, window count, activity).

Kill a tmux session.

List tmux windows (terminal tabs) in a session, or across the server.

Rename a tmux session.

Return metadata for a single tmux window (ID, name, layout, dimensions).

Kill (close) a tmux window. Requires exact window_id (e.g. ‘@3’).

List tmux panes (terminal multiplexer splits) in a window, session, or server.

Move a window to a different index or session.

Rename a tmux window.

Resize a tmux window.

Set the layout of a tmux window.

Select (focus) a tmux window by ID, index, or direction.

Split a tmux window to create a new pane.

Capture the visible contents of a tmux pane (terminal scrollback).

Capture new tmux terminal scrollback since the previous cursor.

Clear the contents of a tmux pane.

Find the pane occupying a corner of a tmux window.

Get detailed information about a tmux pane.

Kill (close) a tmux pane. Requires exact pane_id (e.g. ‘%5’).

Paste multi-line text into a pane using tmux paste buffers.

Log a pane’s live output to a file (or stop an active log).

Resize a tmux pane.

Restart a pane’s process in place, preserving pane_id and layout.

Run a shell command in a pane, wait for completion, and capture output.

Search visible terminal text across all tmux panes.

Select (focus) a tmux pane by ID or direction.

Send keys (commands or text) to a tmux pane.

Send an ordered batch of raw key/text operations to tmux panes.

Set the title of a tmux pane.

Snapshot a tmux pane: visible terminal output, cursor, mode, scroll.

Swap the positions of two panes.

Delete an MCP-owned buffer.

Load text into a new agent-namespaced tmux paste buffer.

Paste an MCP-owned buffer into a pane.

Read back the contents of an MCP-owned buffer.

Look up a specific tmux hook by name.

List configured tmux hooks at the given scope.

Set a tmux environment variable.

Set a tmux option value.

Show tmux environment variables.

Show a tmux option value.

Signal a tmux $wait-for channel, waking blocked waiters.

Block until a tmux $wait-for channel is signalled.

Call several inspect tools serially and return per-tool results.

Read tmux variables against a target and return the substituted text.

Enter copy mode in a tmux pane, optionally scrolling up.

Exit copy mode in a tmux pane.

Wait for NEW output in a tmux pane, then return.