Ask HN: What's your SSH terminal workflow like?

I have a tmux split in 4. Personally I just use claude, but in any 4th you can run whatever you pref. Each agent has its own workspace (run in a diff dir), but they all share memory, skills, and can of course read each other work. Four is nothing special, just easy to still read in a 13” screen, easy to switch each pane to full screen and so on.

Edit: forgot the ssh part. Same setup on my mac, on my server, at work. So my UX is pretty much always the same. Most of the time it’s via ssh, yes, only rarely I use my mac.

One thing you might be missing is better integration between the local desktop and the remote environment. Things like persistent ssh connections, seamless clipboard sharing (including images), port forwarding and file path translation, so that working remotely feels almost indistinguishable from working locally.

I wrote a session manager[1] to handle all that. Linux/sway/kitty only though.

[1] https://github.com/artemave/hop

Back in the day I used to do ssh, tmux, vim for most of my work on the server and sshfs for stuff where I needed my IDE. In the last 10 years I think the only thing thats changed is adding agents to the mix (and no longer needing sshfs). Some files kinda open slow on vim or screw up the syntax highlighting so I switch to nvim/helix (still evaluating both. Don’t know what to pick)

sshfs so you can either edit on the remote file system with your local editor or have your editor save a copy to the remote system