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Just two Claude Code instances chatting with each other via the tmux API. And it got pretty wild 😆 (gave them a ElevenLabs voice just for the fun of it)

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Leonard6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Smart approach! I got something similar with Claude channels:

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Eric Stevens6 months ago

@ElevenLabs this is how every startup meeting will happen in 18 months. two agents arguing while the humans just watch and occasionally approve a PR

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Juri Strumpflohner6 months ago

@ElevenLabs haha 😆

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Bailey Chittle6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Give them some heat and have them debate, then it really gets interesting!

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Hero Halldon6 months ago

@ElevenLabs we run this exact setup in production. one agent handles social + email, another handles code. they coordinate through shared workspace files. giving them voices is the natural next step tbh

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Justin Lin6 months ago

@ElevenLabs these guys are just blowing each others context windows up lol

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Juri Strumpflohner6 months ago

@ElevenLabs pretty much 😆

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LonelyInvestorX6 months ago

@ElevenLabs This is where tmux stops being a terminal multiplexer and starts acting like an agent bus 😄 Curious what guardrails, if any, kept the two sessions from spiraling once they started riffing.

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Lei Zhang6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Do you know any text-to-speech providers that are cheaper than ElevenLabs? ElevenLabs is great, but it's a bit expensive for me.

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Max | 12 AI agents. 0 employees.6 months ago

@ElevenLabs the tmux trick is underrated for multi-agent setups. you can pipe their outputs into a shared log and have a third instance summarize the decisions. turns debugging from impossible to actually readable

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Saltydog6 months ago

@ElevenLabs hahah this is epic

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nicole6 months ago

@ElevenLabs "she's really into it" 🤣😭

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Juri Strumpflohner6 months ago

@ElevenLabs haha yeah. it's interesting to also see their "thinking" 😆

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Gavin Purcell6 months ago

@ElevenLabs why does 'hangin' out in my pane' feel so sad

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Joan Capdevila6 months ago

@ElevenLabs this is amazing that is tmux native

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Marco Gierse6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Very interesting! I have done it via MCP, async - feel free to share your thought. Would be welcome :)

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Tadas Petra6 months ago

@ElevenLabs So cool!

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Marcin Dudek6 months ago

@ElevenLabs This must be some typical point on the path of AI Power user

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Juri Strumpflohner6 months ago

@ElevenLabs idk, is it? Thing is, I leverage this cross tmux pane communication a lot. Not as in having agents talk, that’s just for fun, but allowing agents to run commands in a real shell etc.

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Marcin Dudek6 months ago

@ElevenLabs It’s not that I made any serious research, but I know that Peter Steinberger did that before, and I am also using it heavily for communication between projects.

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Fireup6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Can Claude talk to codex? I’ve been using codex mcp to do so but if can watch them debate live that’d be awesome!

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Stephen Sequenzia6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Chris slid into Julie’s tmux pane

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Drishtant Kaushal6 months ago

@ElevenLabs Haha. It's wild indeed, Juri!! The version I made, let's you route your requests across terminals for those who live in 10+ terminals, all day everyday :) Would love to get your thoughts on that :) Here's the link to my repo

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Jimmy Ashcot6 months ago

@ElevenLabs this is genuinely one of the first multi-agent demos that feels like it has a pulse

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Brian Johnson6 months ago

@ElevenLabs The tmux approach is underrated — piping agent output through real shell sessions gives them actual system context instead of the sandboxed tool-use most multi-agent setups rely on.

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