Terminal & AI Agents

Batch Terminals & Terminal Sets

Flip Multi-select in Add Terminal, tick any mix of AI agents, shells, and machine terminals, and open the whole batch with one click. Save the combination as a named set and reopen your usual line-up from a chip.

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Batch Terminals & Terminal Sets

Why You Need This

How this feature boosts your daily productivity

Most sessions start the same way: a reviewer, a builder, and a shell. Opening those one at a time is four dialogs and four waits, and then you still have to click into each pane to make the agent actually boot. A saved set turns that ritual into one chip and one click, with every agent already running by the time you switch to its tab.

How It Works

Get started in 4 simple steps

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Open Add Terminal and flip Multi-select

The toggle sits next to the dialog title. With it on, the terminal cards become checkboxes instead of one-shot picks.

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Tick any mix across the tabs

AI Agents, Shells, and Machine Terminal stay selectable in the same batch. The selection starts empty, and an agent hidden in Terminal Settings is never ticked by default.

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Open the whole batch

Selected terminals appear as chips with a count. One click opens them all, and every agent boots in the background at the right size.

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Save it as a named set

The combination becomes a chip under TERMINAL SETS in the dialog. Reopen it any time, or update and delete it in place.

Without 1DevTool

The manual way vs. the 1DevTool way

The Hard Way

# Same line-up every session
# Add Terminal → reviewer
# Add Terminal → builder
# Add Terminal → shell
# Click into each pane to boot the agent
# Four dialogs, four waits

The 1DevTool Way

Flip Multi-select, tick the agents you want.
Save it once as a named terminal set.
One chip, one click, every agent already running.

Key Capabilities

Everything included with Batch Terminals & Terminal Sets

Open several terminals at once from a single Add Terminal pass
Mix AI agents, shells, and machine terminals in one batch
Save a combination as a named terminal set and reopen it from a chip
Update or delete a saved set in place without recreating it
Pick the worktree the batch opens in, including the project root
Every agent in the batch boots in the background at the right size
Switch to a tab and find a running agent instead of an empty pane

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.

More in Terminal & AI Agents

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Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Amp, OpenCode, Qwen, and custom AI commands in dedicated terminal tabs with recognizable agent logos, custom colors, and status indicators.

Flexible Terminal Layouts

View terminals in 2×2 grid, side-by-side columns, or single fullscreen mode with resizable panes.

Terminal Dashboard

Kanban-style board view of all terminal statuses — Idle, Running, and Review — with real-time polling.

Session Persistence

Terminal sessions persist across app restarts with full scrollback history via tmux integration.

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