---
title: "Coding agents"
description: "What tty7 does around Claude Code, Codex, TraeCode, and 19 others — without ever wrapping them."
---

tty7 recognises coding agents running in a pane and builds around them. It does
not wrap them, proxy them, or replace their interface: the agent you start is
the agent you get, running in a normal PTY, with its own UI. tty7 adds the
things a terminal is in a position to add — who is running where, what they
need, and what changed.

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  <img src="/images/placeholder.svg" alt="Agent sessions in the tty7 sidebar" />
</Frame>

## Which agents

Twenty-two CLIs are recognised on sight, by the command running in the pane:

| Agent | Command |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | `claude`, `claude-code` |
| Codex | `codex`, `codex-cli` |
| TraeCode | `traecli`, `traex` |
| Gemini | `gemini`, `gemini-cli` |
| Copilot | `copilot` |
| Cursor | `cursor-agent` |
| Amp | `amp` |
| OpenCode | `opencode` |
| Aider | `aider`, `aider-chat` |
| Goose | `goose` |
| Droid | `droid` |
| Grok | `grok` |
| Qwen Code | `qwen`, `qwen-code` |
| Kimi Code | `kimi`, `kimi-code` |
| Qoder CLI | `qoder`, `qodercli` |
| Crush | `crush` |
| Auggie | `auggie` |
| Hermes | `hermes` |
| Vibe | `vibe`, `vibe-acp` |
| Antigravity | `agy`, `antigravity` |
| Pi | `pi` |
| Oh My Pi | `omp` |

Detection sees through the usual disguises: a full path, a `.cmd` or `.exe` on
Windows, leading environment assignments, and an interpreter in front
(`node .../claude/cli.js`).

### Your own wrapper

If you launch agents through a wrapper script, map its name to an agent in
`config.json`:

```json
{
  "agent_commands": {
    "cc": "claude",
    "work": "codex"
  }
}
```

The key is your command's name; the value is one of the slugs above (`claude`,
`codex`, `traecli`, `gemini`, `aider`, `amp`, `opencode`, `copilot`, `cursor`, `goose`,
`droid`, `pi`, `auggie`, `hermes`, `vibe`, `antigravity`, `grok`, `qwen`,
`omp`, `kimi`, `qodercli`, `crush`).

## What you get for free

Just by running an agent in a pane:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Brand avatars" icon="id-badge">
    The tab chip and sidebar row show which agent runs where, so ten tabs stay
    legible.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Git context" icon="code-branch">
    The branch and working-tree diff on the row, refreshed as the agent works.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Session resume" icon="rotate-left">
    A pane lost to a reboot relaunches the conversation, carrying its original
    flags. [More →](/agents/sessions)
  </Card>
  <Card title="Context feed" icon="paper-plane">
    Palette commands that hand the current selection or the repo's `git diff` to
    the running agent as a prompt.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What needs a hook

Live status — **working**, **needs your input**, **done** — comes from the agent
itself, over a channel tty7 installs into that agent's configuration. It powers
the status dots, the notifications, the tray icon, and `tty7 wait`.

Installing takes one click per agent under **Settings → Agents**.
[Status and notifications →](/agents/status)

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Status and notifications" icon="circle-dot" href="/agents/status">
    Hooks, status dots, the tray icon.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Sessions" icon="code-branch" href="/agents/sessions">
    Resume, fork, and copying a session id.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Orchestration" icon="diagram-project" href="/agents/orchestration">
    One agent driving another with `tty7 wait`.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>