cmux

AI Agents · Developer Tools
3open roles
2backers · Y Combinator, Scribble Ventures
50+team · employees, estimated range
17stories in the press

Overview

Free and open source macOS terminal for AI coding agents. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider, and any CLI tool.

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Scribble Ventures
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 2024 Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
35 public repositories · +4%
Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
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Jobs

$130k – $170k per year · Equity 0.5–1.5% · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
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$130k – $170k per year · Equity 0.5–1.5% · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
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$130k – $170k per year · Equity 0.5–1.5% · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Rust
C++
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Linux
Windows
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
67% ▼
Design
33% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at cmux over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
9
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
80/100
Languages
Zig
C++
Rust
Swift
Cloud & platforms
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Windows
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Full cmux tech stack 9 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Shared investors2
177 portfolio companies: Town, hiloop, Dream Labs and 174 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

Blog 4 months ago
How I used 367 billion tokens in 30 days
My cmux loop is Cmd+Shift+U, review the next finished agent, reply, repeat, then start another task when the notification queue is empty.
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Blog 4 months ago
Superrepos and Why Claude Code Is the Best Worktree Manager
A lot of people have asked why cmux doesn't have a worktree manager yet. The best manager can choose a worktree, second checkout, sandbox, VM, or GPU cluster.
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Blog 4 months ago
Introducing cmux Fork
Branch an agent conversation into a new split, tab, or workspace without losing its context.
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Blog 6 months ago
Unread workspace shortcuts in cmux
Cmd+Control+U cycles through unread workspaces while keeping them unread, and Cmd+Option+U toggles read state.
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Blog 6 months ago
A better markdown viewer in cmux
Open README.md with cmux open or drag markdown files from the right sidebar.
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Blog 6 months ago
Task Manager in cmux
Use cmux top or Task Manager from the command palette to see CPU and RAM usage for your coding agents.
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Blog 6 months ago
Passkey auth in the cmux browser
cmux's embedded browser supports passkey authentication and can import cookies from other browsers with cmux browser import.
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Blog 6 months ago
Session restore in cmux
How cmux restores layouts and resumes Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Antigravity CLI, Grok Build CLI, and other agent sessions.
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Blog 8 months ago
oh-my-openagent subagents as native cmux panes
oh-my-openagent orchestrates specialist Claude, GPT, and Gemini agents in parallel. cmux omo turns each tmux pane into a native split.
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Blog 8 months ago
Claude Code teammate agents as native cmux panes
Claude Code's teammate mode requires tmux. cmux fakes it so teammates become native splits with sidebar metadata and notifications.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Design
seen since Sep 2026