Glossary

Persistent Terminal Session

A terminal session that survives disconnects and restarts, preserving running processes and state.

A persistent terminal session keeps your shell, running processes, and scrollback alive even after you disconnect or close the window. It's essential for remote development, long builds, and long-running AI agents that you don't want to interrupt.

Persistence traditionally comes from multiplexers like tmux, but some terminals offer it natively. For AI agents specifically, persistent sessions mean an agent can keep working while you step away.

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Terminal Multiplexer

A tool like tmux or Zellij that runs multiple persistent terminal sessions inside one window.

Multi-Agent Orchestration

Coordinating several AI agents toward one goal by splitting it into tasks across parallel sessions.

Persistent Terminal Sessions Tmux Zellij Guide

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