codeCodeman vs Claude Squad: web dashboard or terminal TUI
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What Claude Squad isWhat Codeman isSide by sideChoose Claude Squad if...Choose Codeman if...Using bothClaude Squad is the better fit if you work in a terminal and want every agent task isolated on its own git branch, with a diff to review before you push. Codeman is the better fit if you want to follow and answer your agents from a browser or a phone, get alerted when one is blocked, and leave sessions running unattended.
What Claude Squad is
Claude Squad is a terminal app, installed as cs, that manages several coding agents from one window. Each session gets its own tmux session and its own git worktree on a separate branch, so parallel tasks never edit the same checkout. From the TUI you create a session (optionally with a starting prompt), attach to it to reprompt, switch to a diff tab to review what changed, commit and push the branch to GitHub, or check a session out, which commits its changes and pauses it until you resume.
It launches Claude Code by default. The -p flag runs any other command instead, and the README names Codex, Gemini and Aider; profiles in the config file let you pick a program per session. An experimental --autoyes flag accepts prompts automatically. It installs through Homebrew or a curl script, needs tmux and the GitHub CLI, and is licensed AGPL-3.0.
What Codeman is
Codeman is a self-hosted web server that runs agent CLIs inside persistent tmux sessions and streams each real terminal to a browser. It supports nine CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Pi, Grok Build, DeepSeek Harness, OMP) plus plain shells, chosen per session. Tabs change state when an agent waits for input or hits a permission prompt, and push notifications reach a phone with no tab open. Claude sessions can resume on their own after a usage limit resets and show their subagents in live windows. Cron jobs, per-project Docker containers and remote SSH sessions are built in. It needs Node.js 22+ and tmux, runs on macOS and Linux (Windows through WSL2), and is MIT licensed. See Core Concepts for how cases and sessions fit together.
Side by side
| Claude Squad | Codeman | |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | Terminal UI | Web UI in any browser; codeman tui for a terminal list |
| What you install | One binary, plus tmux and gh |
A server you keep running, plus Node.js 22+ and tmux |
| Agents run in tmux | Yes | Yes, on a separate codeman tmux socket |
| Git worktree per session | Yes, created automatically | No: sessions run in a case directory you pick, and sessions in one case share it |
| Diff review | Yes, diff tab | No |
| Commit and push from the UI | Yes, via gh |
No |
| Supported agents | Claude Code by default; any command through -p |
Nine CLIs plus shell (Agent CLIs) |
| Phone access | No dedicated interface (the TUI works over SSH) | Yes: touch terminal, installable web app, QR login (Mobile Guide) |
| Blocked-agent signal | Status icon per session in the list | Tab alerts, desktop and push notifications (Notifications) |
| Auto-accept prompts | Yes, experimental --autoyes |
Yes for Claude: starts with permission prompts skipped by default, configurable |
| Resume after a usage limit | Not in README | Yes, Claude sessions only |
| Scheduled jobs | Not in README | Yes (Cron Jobs) |
| Containers and remote hosts | Not in README | Yes (Docker Cases, Remote SSH Sessions) |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
Choose Claude Squad if...
- You want a tool that lives entirely in your terminal, with no server, port or login to set up.
- Branch isolation matters more to you than anything else. Claude Squad creates the worktree for every session, and the diff, commit and push steps sit next to the agent in the same window. Codeman does none of that for you: if you run three agents in one repository through Codeman, they share the checkout unless you create worktrees yourself and link each one as a case.
- You run an agent Codeman does not list, such as Aider. Claude Squad takes any launch command.
- You would rather not run a Node.js server at all. Claude Squad is one Go binary.
Choose Codeman if...
- You want to check on agents and answer their questions from a phone or from another computer, without SSH.
- You run many sessions and want to be told which one is blocked, including through push notifications with the tab closed.
- You leave Claude sessions running overnight and want them to pick up again after a usage limit resets, with subagent activity visible while they run.
- You need a project isolated in a Docker container, an agent running on a remote machine over SSH, or a prompt that fires on a schedule.
- You want the terminal of each CLI exactly as it draws itself, streamed rather than summarized.
Using both
The two tools do not share state and can run on the same machine. Codeman keeps its sessions on its own tmux socket, so they do not appear in a plain tmux ls and do not mix with other tmux sessions. One workable split is Claude Squad for short branch-per-task work at the desk, where the diff and push loop is the point, and Codeman for the long-running sessions you want to follow from a phone.
Checked against Claude Squad's README on 2026-09-25 (8,527 stars). Spotted something out of date? Open an issue.