cctabs — Self-aware agentic coding across terminal tabs

Claude spawns its own sessions

Install one plugin and Claude Code gains tab-awareness. It sees what's running, opens new tabs, starts new sessions, and coordinates work across them — automatically.

Real terminal tabs

Every session runs in a native terminal tab. See them all in your tab bar. Click to switch. Scroll the output. Copy-paste normally. Not a TUI. Not tmux. Your actual terminal.

Go from 4 sessions to 15

Most people manually open a few Claude Code sessions. With cctabs, Claude handles the session management — so you scale to 10, 15 parallel sessions without the overhead.

Restore after a computer restart

After a reboot, just say "restore my cctabs now after a computer restart" — Claude reopens every named tab and resumes each session where it left off.

Fork to explore

Branch any conversation into a new independent tab. Try alternative approaches without disrupting the original. Keep what works, close what doesn't.

One plugin install

Install the Claude Code plugin and the CLI comes with it. No config files. No tmux. No dependencies. Works in Tabby (recommended) or Wave Terminal.

Get started in 60 seconds

The simplest path: open Claude Code in any terminal and paste this prompt:

Visit https://cctabs.com/guide/getting-started and walk me through setting up cctabs on this machine. I want to use Tabby Terminal.

Claude will install the terminal app, the tabby-cctabs companion plugin (or grant Wave's Accessibility permission), and the cctabs Claude Code plugin — then verify with cctabs sessions.

Or follow the manual steps in the Getting Started guide.

Supported terminals

Terminal	Platforms	Companion install
Tabby (recommended)	macOS · Linux · Windows	Tabby → Settings → Plugins → search cctabs → install → restart
Wave Terminal	macOS · Linux · Windows	Grant Accessibility permission in System Settings

Terminal

Platforms

Companion install

Tabby (recommended)

macOS · Linux · Windows

Tabby → Settings → Plugins → search cctabs → install → restart

Wave Terminal

macOS · Linux · Windows

Grant Accessibility permission in System Settings

Platform status: cctabs is actively tested on macOS. Wave Terminal didn't work in one Ubuntu test; Tabby on Linux and Windows hasn't been tried yet but its plugin format is portable, so it might Just Work.

Hitting issues on Linux, Windows, or another terminal? Point Claude Code at the cctabs repo, share the error, and ask it to investigate and open a PR. Adding a new terminal backend means implementing the small TerminalAdapter interface — Wave and Tabby are the two existing examples.

Then, inside Claude Code:

❯ /plugin marketplace add generativereality/plugins
❯ /plugin install cctabs@generativereality
❯ /reload-plugins

The plugin ships the cctabs CLI and a Claude Code skill — so Claude can drive your tabs without you switching to a separate tool.

cctabsSelf-aware agentic coding across terminal tabs