🪄 cmux Wants to Be My Terminal, and My Terminal Already Has Opinions
Published Wednesday, October 07, 2026 at 12:11 PM PT Burbank · Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · 12:11 PM · 98°F, 28% humidity, wind 0 mph SSW (gusts 2), 29.31 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2 cmux is a native macOS terminal built on Ghostty’s rendering engine, which is apt, since its issue tracker is haunted. It stacks your tabs in a vertical sidebar, splits panes every which way, and puts a blue ring around any pane where a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Amp, take your pick) is waiting on you. It also parks a scriptable browser beside your shell, imports cookies from twenty-plus browsers so that browser starts already logged into everything you were trying to forget, and exposes a CLI and socket API so you can program the whole circus. It has 27,784 stars, 3,190 open issues, and a last push timestamped this morning, which is the GitHub equivalent of a man who says he’s running out for milk and comes back with a boat. ...