Use this skill when one pane should act as a manager agent and coordinate one or more worker agent panes through tmux-bridge, without first building a separate orchestration runtime.

This version also supports a ProblemMap drift guard: the manager can diagnose suspicious worker behavior from the shared context mirror before blindly retrying, widening scope, or rewriting prompts.

When to use

You already have tmux panes running agents such as Copilot CLI or Codex.
You want 1-to-many task dispatch from one manager pane to multiple worker panes.
You want worker panes to see a shared, sanitized manager context.
You want to stay smux-native first and add helpers only if pain appears.

When not to use

You need unattended execution, durable replay, or restart recovery.
You need queue semantics that survive process or tmux restarts.
You need device/UART brokering or policy enforcement beyond pane orchestration.

Use this skill when one pane should act as a manager agent and coordinate one or more worker agent panes through tmux-bridge, without first building a separate orchestration runtime.

When to use

You already have tmux panes running agents such as Copilot CLI or Codex.
You want 1-to-many task dispatch from one manager pane to multiple worker panes.
You want worker panes to see a shared, sanitized manager context.
You want to stay smux-native first and add helpers only if pain appears.

When not to use

You need unattended execution, durable replay, or restart recovery.
You need queue semantics that survive process or tmux restarts.
You need device/UART brokering or policy enforcement beyond pane orchestration.

Smux Manager Skill

When to use

When not to use

Smux Manager Skill

When to use

When not to use

Core model

Roles

Manager pane

Worker panes

Optional bus pane

Recommended workflow

Protocol summary

Context mirror policy

ProblemMap drift guard

Thin helper scripts

Observed thin-helper thresholds

Escalate beyond smux when

Mcporter

Sonoscli

Openhue

Healthcheck

Things Mac

Eightctl