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Luvus

Rust terminal multiplexer for AI coding agents: persistent workspaces and panes, live working/blocked/done/idle status per agent, an orchestration board with worktrees, SSH remote attach, and an optional browser client.

Reviewed by the Termdex team · facts checked 2026-10-21 against 22 vendor sources · how we check

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Luvus review

Luvus calls itself mission control for AI coding agents, and its docs call the core a multiplexer. The README says a background server keeps workspaces and panes alive and a sidebar shows each agent as working, blocked, done or idle. We read the vendor's site, docs, README, GitHub data and crates.io listing in November 2026. We did not install or run it.

The docs say live status needs no setup, with agents identified by the program running in the pane (on Windows, by command, title and screen text). Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI and opencode are among the supported agents.

Worktrees, remote and browser

The docs say an orchestration board can give each task its own git worktree, and path leases reserve declared file globs so overlapping tasks are not assigned together. `luvus --remote host` uses your local ssh, and Luvus is needed on both machines. Luvus Web is an optional browser client, read-only unless started with `--control`, and phones need a trusted TLS tunnel or reverse proxy. The docs we read mention no native mobile app.

A young project with mixed signals

Release v0.14.3 is dated 30 September. The GitHub API showed 1,014 stars on 12 November 2026, and the repository dates from 22 June. The v0.11.0 release notes describe a rename from Bohay.

Licensing needs a second look. GitHub carries Apache 2.0, with a switch from AGPL on 29 August in the commit log. crates.io lists only 0.1.0, from August, under AGPL-3.0-or-later.

It may suit developers who live in a terminal and want persistent panes and per-agent status. Herdr is another Apache-2.0 agent multiplexer in our index, and Zellij and tmux are general-purpose multiplexers.

Luvus at a glance: on macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, free, Apache-2.0 licence.
Platforms, price and licence at a glance, from the vendor pages we read.

Facts: platforms, price and licence

platforms
macOSWindowsLinuxWebGitHub release v0.14.3 attaches tarballs for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Linux musl (x86_64 and arm64) plus .deb/.rpm, FreeBSD amd64, and a Windows x86_64 zip. The FAQ says to run it inside Windows Terminal and that live per-pane cwd tracking and the shell hook are unavailable on Windows (agents are identified there from command, window title and screen text). 'web' is Luvus Web, an optional browser client bundled in the same binary (read-only by default, started with `luvus web`); it is not a separate hosted product.
price
FreePrice is NOT stated anywhere we read. 'free' is an inference from the Apache-2.0 licence and the absence of any pricing page (https://luvus.dev/pricing/ returned 404 on 2026-11-12) or paid tier on the home page, docs or README. No page uses the word 'free' for the product.
source
Open sourceLicence: Apache-2.0
github
RizRiyz/luvus 1k stars, seen 2026-11-13

Luvus features

✓ documented · – absent or not in its feature list · ? not verified

Luvus strengths

  • Per the docs, agent status needs no setup: the agent is identified from the program running in the pane (on Windows from command, title and screen text); the docs list session resume for 16 of the 23 listed agents and fork-to-new-pane for six (Kilo Code only with an exact session ID)
  • The docs describe an orchestration board where each task can run in its own git worktree (or a shared workspace tab), with path leases on declared file globs, optional quality-gate commands and a merge step in a dedicated worktree; this is the vendor's description, not tested by us
  • luvus --remote host attaches over the local system ssh (docs show -p, -i, -J and -F pass-through) and the docs say the remote server keeps panes alive after detach
  • Apache-2.0 per the repo; docs describe a single static binary (about 3 MB) with install.sh, Homebrew, deb/rpm, Nix flake and PowerShell installer; the README documents a CLI and UHP 1.0 as the versioned automation protocol

Luvus weak points

  • Young project: repo created 2026-06-22, versions are 0.x, and the v0.11.0 release notes describe Luvus as a rename and platform update from Bohay
  • crates.io lists only 0.1.0 (published 2026-08-18) with licence AGPL-3.0-or-later, while the repo and Cargo.toml say Apache-2.0 at 0.14.3; the LICENSE commit history shows AGPL-3.0-or-later on 2026-07-23 and Apache 2.0 on 2026-08-29
  • Latest tagged release (v0.14.3, 2026-09-30) is about six weeks older than the newest commit on main (2026-11-10)
  • Windows needs Windows Terminal and lacks live cwd tracking and the shell hook; the remote guide says Luvus must be installed on both machines; phone browser access needs a trusted TLS tunnel or reverse proxy and the web client is read-only unless --control is used; the docs we read mention no native mobile app

Who Luvus is for

best for
Developers who already run several agent CLIs in a terminal and want persistent panes, per-agent status, worktree-based task orchestration and SSH attach in one Rust TUI.
look elsewhere if
Users who want a GUI terminal, a general-purpose SSH client, a native mobile app (none mentioned in the docs we read), or a product with a long release history.

Lists that include Luvus

Sources and what we could not verify

Checked 2026-10-21. Prices and features change; the vendor's page is the authority.

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