Run many Claude Code sessions. See them all in one terminal.

claude-garage-showreel-rust.mp4

Why

Running several Claude Code sessions means juggling terminal windows. The hard part isn't the windows. It's knowing which session is waiting for you right now, and not losing sessions when you close a terminal or reboot.

herdr solves a lot of this and is a good product. I found it too complex and verbose for what I needed. So I built something simpler: one wall, one key to jump to whoever is waiting, and tmux keeping every session alive.

What it does

• Shows every session at once. One full-screen grid per project.
• Tells you who needs you. A session waiting for your answer turns amber. Press a to jump to it, from any project.
• Keeps sessions alive. tmux runs them, not garage. Close the terminal or reboot, and your sessions come back with their full conversation.

It's small: a 2.6 MB binary, about 6 MB of RAM and ~2% CPU.

Install

You need:

• macOS
• Node.js 20 or newer
• tmux 3.2 or newer (garage offers to install it with brew)
• Claude Code on your PATH

Then run:

npx claude-garage

On an Intel Mac, the first run builds the app from source, so you also need Rust (rustup.rs). Apple Silicon needs nothing extra.

First steps

1. Press w and add a project folder. You can type, paste or drag the path in, or press Ctrl+O to pick a folder.
2. Press n to start a Claude session in it.
3. Press Enter to type into the session. Press Ctrl+G to get back to garage.
4. Press ? any time to see all keys.

Press q to quit. Your sessions keep running in the background.

Session states

Glyph	State	Meaning
●	needs input	Claude is waiting for your answer. Always sorted first.
◐	working	Claude is running.
✓	done	Finished since you last looked.
○	idle	Waiting for your next request.
⟳	restorable	The session stopped (after a reboot, say). Press Enter to bring it back.

Keys

Moving around

Key	Action
1–9	switch project
[ / ]	previous / next session
Tab	switch view
m	maximize the focused session
a	jump to the session waiting longest
A	list every waiting session

Typing into a session

Key	Action
Enter	start typing into the focused session
Ctrl+G	stop typing, back to garage
t	open the session in its own terminal window

Sessions and projects

Key	Action
n	new session
N	new session in its own git worktree
x x	close the focused session
R	bring back all stopped sessions in this project
d	move the session into its own view (press again to move it back)
D	move the session to another view
w	add a project
X X	remove the project (sessions keep running)
X K	remove the project and close its sessions

Closing a worktree session (x x) asks whether to merge, discard or keep its branch.

Restart and extras

Key	Action
r r	restart the focused session on the latest claude
r a	restart all idle sessions in this project
r d	restart garage's background service
I	install hooks (instant status) and the context meter
P	pick a pit pet
?	show all keys
q	quit

Terminal tip: Ghostty, iTerm2, kitty and WezTerm work best. In macOS Terminal.app, Shift+Enter acts like Enter. Use Option+Enter for a new line instead.

Restarting

When Claude Code ships an update, running sessions keep the old version. To update them:

claude-garage restart --sessions

This restarts every idle session and keeps its conversation. Busy sessions are skipped. Add --all to restart those too.

claude-garage restart alone restarts only garage's background service. Your sessions are not touched.

Pit pet

An optional pet lives in the bottom bar. It sleeps when all is quiet and runs to alert you when a session needs you. Press P to choose one.

Arthur         Papito         Segan

Privacy

Everything stays on your machine.

• garage listens on 127.0.0.1 only.
• No telemetry, no accounts.
• State is one file: ~/.garage/state.json.

How it works

tmux            runs every session
  └─ daemon     small Node service: starts, lists and watches sessions
       └─ TUI   the Rust terminal wall you look at

You can delete garage and your sessions keep running. Reattach any of them with tmux attach -t garage/<project>/<label>.

Development

npm install
npm test             # daemon tests
npm run build:tui    # build the Rust app into wall/dist
cd wall && cargo test --lib --bins

Note: plain cargo test also starts and kills real tmux sessions.

Roadmap

• Linux support
• Diff review in the TUI
• Adopt an existing tmux session
• Phone notifications

License

MIT © Saiful Islam

Not affiliated with Anthropic. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are Anthropic trademarks.