Writing

Long-form notes on
building gmux.

Honest writing about what we're making, what we've shipped, what's broken, and what we're learning while building a gesture-based terminal multiplexer for the AI-agent era.

The complete feature inventory

A full audit, accurate as of May 2026 — every shipped feature, every paused feature, every abandoned feature.

New Research · May 2026 ~25 min read

Every feature, every port, every paused thing — the honest map.

The gmux ecosystem has outgrown any single document. This article is the complete reference: the PyPI package, the Tauri app, the Cloudflare Worker, the gesture engine, the voice daemon, the phone prototypes, the desktop integration bridges, the MCP brain layer. Read it before adding a feature — you'll likely find it already exists.

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Research articles

Deep dives: where gmux came from, how each implementation evolved, where it sits in the ecosystem.

Research · 01

gmux: a gesture-aware AI terminal multiplexer.

The clean product overview. What it is, the three layers it ships in, the gesture vocabulary, the voice routing, the phone remote, and how it compares to Multica, qalcode2, Warp and DeepSeek-TUI.

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Research · 02

Every implementation we tried — what worked, what didn't.

From the April assembled prototype to the abandoned transparent overlay (killed by Wayland) to the Tauri app that owns the terminal. A technical review of all six implementations, with the architectural decisions logged honestly.

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Research · 03

Building gmux: a developer's log.

The annoying-to-solve problem of ten parallel agents in tmux. The state-detection bug fix. The Wayland trap. The port collision with aria-phone. The installer freeze decision. The honest story of what got built, broke, and got rebuilt.

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Research · 04

Where gmux sits in the ecosystem.

Three layers of AI tooling: orchestration (Multica), execution (qalcode2, Hermes, Claude Code), interaction (gmux). Most tools cover the middle; almost nothing covers the third. This is where the moat is.

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Field notes

Shorter pieces — one idea each. The pitch, the architecture, the gesture vocabulary, the phone, the memory layer, and the roadmap.

7 short essays · one page

The traffic light, the layers, the gestures, the phone, the memory, the scope, the roadmap.

Seven short field notes about gmux, written for the homepage reader who wants to understand the product in one continuous read. Calm, opinionated, illustrated.

  • 01The traffic light for your AI fleet
  • 02Three layers that fail independently
  • 03The gesture vocabulary
  • 04Pocket-sized mission control
  • 05Agents that remember the last session
  • 06What gmux isn't
  • 07Coming soon — multi-camera, scheduled prompts
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