Pane tools

Pane-scoped tools — read and drive individual terminals, wait for output, copy mode, and channel sync.

capture_pane

Read visible or scrollback text from a pane.

search_panes

Search text across many panes in one call.

snapshot_pane

Capture content plus cursor, mode, and scroll state in one call.

get_pane_info

Read pane metadata without content.

display_message

Evaluate a tmux format string against a target.

send_keys

Send keystrokes or commands to a pane.

paste_text

Paste multi-line text via tmux buffer.

pipe_pane

Fork pane output to a file or program.

select_pane

Switch focus to a pane.

swap_pane

Swap two panes’ positions.

set_pane_title

Set a pane’s human-readable title.

clear_pane

Clear a pane’s scrollback.

resize_pane

Resize a pane.

enter_copy_mode

Enter tmux copy mode for scrollback navigation.

exit_copy_mode

Exit copy mode.

wait_for_text

Block until a pattern appears in a pane.

wait_for_content_change

Block until pane content changes.

wait_for_channel

Block until a tmux wait-for channel is signalled.

signal_channel

Signal a waiting channel.

respawn_pane

Restart a pane’s process in place, preserving pane_id.

kill_pane

Terminate a pane. Destructive.