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How to Run Multiple Claude Code Sessions in tmux (and Why 3 Beats 5)
Published on October 20, 2026By DEV Community
Anthropic's own docs tell you to start a team of Claude Code agents at 3 to 5, and they say outright that "three focused teammates often outperform five scattered ones." Most of the "I run 12 agents in parallel" posts skip that line. I run multiple Claude Code sessions in tmux every day. tmux is free, it's been around since 2007, and it covers what parallel agents need: one session per git worktree, send-keys so scripts can drive agents, and detach/reattach so a job on a remote box keeps going w
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