Terminal & AI Agents

Hibernate Idle Agents

Agents you are not watching stop costing you memory. An agent left at its prompt shuts its CLI down and keeps its tab, resuming the same session on the next keystroke — and browser tabs in projects you have left unload on their own.

Hibernate Idle Agents

Why You Need This

How this feature boosts your daily productivity

A workspace with a dozen agents in it holds a dozen CLIs in memory, and most of them are sitting at a prompt doing nothing. 1DevTool now reclaims that on its own. An agent idle at its prompt for half an hour hibernates: the CLI process shuts down, the tab stays exactly where it was, and the pane reads *“Hibernated — press any key or click to resume”*. Pressing a key brings the same session back. It never happens mid-turn, and never to a seat on a running team, so nothing you are actually waiting on is touched. You can also do it deliberately — right-click a terminal for **Hibernate** or **Hibernate all idle**, or reach it from a terminal's row in the Resource Manager. Browser tabs follow the same idea from the other direction: once you leave a project, its tabs release their memory after an idle period (**Settings → Browser**, 15 minutes by default), while tabs with unsaved fields, playing audio, driven by an agent, or pinned **Keep awake** stay loaded — and coming back to a project wakes its active tab. When the machine is genuinely short on memory, the app goes further on its own: background polling pauses and idle tabs sleep sooner. On Windows the programs inside your terminals also drop to below-normal CPU priority until the pressure clears, so the pane you are typing in stays responsive; macOS and Linux cannot raise a priority back once lowered, so there the Resource Manager's manual **Lower priority** covers one terminal at a time and lasts until those processes exit. The automatic behaviour is switched under **Settings → General → Diagnostics**.

How It Works

Get started in 4 simple steps

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Leave an agent at its prompt

After half an hour idle the CLI shuts down and the tab stays exactly where it was, reading "Hibernated — press any key or click to resume".

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Press a key to bring it back

The same session resumes. It never happens mid-turn, and never to a seat on a running team, so nothing you are waiting on is touched.

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Or hibernate on purpose

Right-click a terminal for Hibernate or Hibernate all idle, or reach it from that terminal’s row in the Resource Manager.

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Let browser tabs do the same

Tabs in projects you have left unload after an idle period — Settings → Browser, 15 minutes by default — while tabs with unsaved fields, playing audio, driven by an agent, or pinned Keep awake stay loaded.

Without 1DevTool

The manual way vs. the 1DevTool way

The Hard Way

# twelve agents open, two of them working
# every idle CLI still holds its memory
# close the tab to get the RAM back
# lose the session along with it
# a browser tab from a project you left last week, still resident

The 1DevTool Way

Idle agents hibernate; the tab stays
"Hibernated - press any key or click to resume"
Other projects’ tabs unload after 15 minutes
Keep awake pins the ones that must not sleep

Key Capabilities

Everything included with Hibernate Idle Agents

Hibernate an agent idle at its prompt while keeping its tab
Resume the same session with a single keystroke
Never hibernate mid-turn, or a seat on a running team
Hibernate one terminal or every idle one from the right-click menu
Unload browser tabs in projects you have left, after 15 minutes
Pin a tab Keep awake so it never sleeps
Keep tabs with unsaved fields, audio or an agent driving them loaded
Drop terminal CPU priority automatically when the machine runs short

Why It Matters

The productivity impact of having terminal & ai agents built into your workspace

Zero Context Switching

All your AI agents and terminals live in one window. No more alt-tabbing between 5 different terminal apps.

Visual Status Tracking

Color-coded tabs and the Kanban dashboard tell you which agents are done, running, or need attention — at a glance.

Persistent Sessions

Tmux-backed persistence means your terminal state survives crashes and restarts. Never lose scrollback history again.

Flexible Arrangements

One-click layouts adapt to your task: grid for monitoring, columns for comparing, fullscreen for deep focus.

Ready to boost your workflow?

Download 1DevTool for free and experience Hibernate Idle Agents along with 287 other features — all in one app.