I run my work in tmux: builds, logs, servers, and lately a lot of AI coding agents. The thing about an agent in a pane is that it stops and waits for me. "May I run this?" "Which of these three?" "Done." And I am never at that keyboard when it asks. I am in the kitchen, on the train, on a walk.

So I built muxway : a small Go agent next to tmux on each machine, a hub, and clients. The clients got out of hand. There is a browser one, an Android one with a Wear OS watch face, one for Even Realities G2 glasses, and a Java ME MIDlet that runs on a Nokia 6310i from 2002.

That phone has a 96 by 65 pixel screen, GPRS, and cannot do modern TLS. It reads Claude Code and answers it. This post is about why the Nokia was the useful one to build, not the silly one.

The agent calls you

The part I use most is the notification. Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity tell muxway, through their hooks, when they ask a question, want a permission, go idle, or finish.…