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by boxed 2 hours ago
How would you know if a tab that isn't frontmost is waiting for input or complete or whatever?
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You can achieve this with features that Tmux already have. Glued a tool that works:

https://gist.github.com/Enoch2090/5026c417f86ff6ff4fbe30c22b...

Someone else suggested the bell character. But you can also just set tmux pane names or color. Which you can also do from your agent harnass.
You use an agentic harness which terminates with bell character[0]. This lights up tmux, clearly indicating that it's done.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

Does this mean adding instructions to AGENTS.md saying to end everything with the bell character? Or do harnesses have this in their settings somewhere?
Depends on the harness I imagine. If there's some sort of "post run" hook I'm sure it can be added there. Or, if the harness is open source, a PR to add it would work too.