tmux-ide 2.7

2.7 is the unified-app release. tmux-ide app was a proven spike in 2.6; now it's a real terminal IDE over your fleet — panes that feel native, agents you can see at a glance, and a front door you can open from anywhere. tmux still owns the PTYs, the layout, and persistence; the app just renders them. If it dies, your sessions are ordinary tmux, exactly as before.

tmux-ide app          # from any folder — no tmux server required

Tabs across the top: F1 Home · F2 Terminal · F3 Files · F4 Diff · F5 palette. It's mouse-native throughout, and ^q detaches clean.

Panes that feel native

The Terminal surface renders a live mirror of your real panes, and in 2.7 that mirror stopped feeling like a mirror:

• Much faster pane rendering — pane content blits straight into the framebuffer and repaints only the rows that actually changed, so a busy log scrolls smoothly and a quiet pane costs nothing.
• A crisp input fast path — keystrokes are fire-and-forget and coalesced instead of waiting for a round-trip per key, so typing into a pane feels local even over the control-mode hop. Large pastes land byte-perfect and fast.
• A hardware cursor — the focused pane drives the terminal's real cursor: shape, blink, and hide/show follow the application, so vim and Claude Code behave exactly as they do outside the app. Unfocused panes show a quiet marker.

You don't configure any of this — it's just how the Terminal surface behaves now.

Agents at a glance

The fleet's agent state is now visible without opening anything:

• A sidebar agents section lists every agent across every session, blocked ones first. Click one and the app jumps straight to its pane.
• Per-pane status chips — an agent pane wears a small chip (● claude); a blocked agent turns bold red and shows how long it's been waiting (● claude · blocked 4m).
• A focus hairline — the focused pane gets a quiet accent border so you always know where your keystrokes are going.

Under the hood, tmux-ide team --json now carries a per-pane agents[] array, the same data the sidebar and chips read. → Agent detection

Start it anywhere

The app no longer assumes you already have a session running. tmux-ide app works from any folder with no tmux server at all — a genuine cold start.

• A first-run welcome greets new users in plain language instead of an empty grid.
• Open folder… is a real filesystem picker: choose a directory and the app opens it as a terminal workspace, with the option to remember it as a project and set up a layout. Recently opened folders are one click away.
• The front door, optionally. Set app.frontDoor: true in ~/.tmux-ide/config.json and bare tmux-ide launches the unified app instead of the classic home cockpit. It's opt-in; ide.yml auto-launch and tmux-ide team are unaffected. → Getting started

Settings without JSON

There's no settings screen and no JSON to hand-edit for the common cases. Every setting is a palette command — press F5 and type "settings":

• Accent color with a live preview as you move the cursor.
• Notifications — channels, which transitions alert you, and quiet hours (a daily window where banners stay silent).
• Updates & background refresh cadence.
• Crash restore — whether restore revives agents or rebuilds sessions only.
• Keyboard shortcuts — a read-only viewer of your current binds.
• Reset to defaults, guarded by a confirm.

Changes persist atomically to ~/.tmux-ide/config.json and the status line tells you where they landed. → ide.yml & configuration

Select & copy inside agent panes

Panes running a full-screen app (Claude Code, vim, htop) capture the mouse, so you couldn't drag to select text in them. Now you can: right-click → "Select text…" (or the palette's "Select text in pane") pauses mouse forwarding so you can select and copy, with the wheel scrolling history while you do. Ordinary shell panes drag-select directly, as before. Copies use SSH-transparent OSC52, so the text lands on your local clipboard even across a remote session.

Size honesty with co-attached terminals

If another terminal is attached to the same window and sizes it smaller, the app no longer pretends. It centers the view and says so, and the palette offers "Resize to fit this window" to reclaim the full canvas when you want it. Detaching always leaves the other terminal's size intact.

Per-platform release binaries

The app used to need a dev checkout to run. 2.7 ships per-platform TUI binaries with download-on-demand, so a plain npm i -g tmux-ide gets you a working tmux-ide app without a repo. → Getting started

Also in 2.7

• Right-click context menus everywhere — pane, window, and session verbs including layout presets and synchronize-panes, with destructive actions confirmed.
• Scrollback search (/), a paste-buffer picker, and pane-zoom fast paths.
• Notification polish: deduped banners, quiet hours, and richer content.
• Broader agent detection: six more screen manifests, with detection confidence now surfaced.