mi6

Tool for monitoring and managing coding agents

Features:

• Informative: monitor 40+ live metrics per session
• Versatile: monitors any workflow, can be used alongside other tools
• Customizable: choose the columns, sorting, filtering, theming
• Fast: instant startup, low input latency, consumes little CPU / RAM
• Compatible: supports Claude Code and many other tools
• Controllable: intuitive + efficient keyboard shortcuts
• QoL: many small things

mi6 makes it easy to monitor and manage many agentic sessions in parallel:

• double-click a session to change window focus to that session
• can see which sessions are 1. waiting on user input 2. working 3. idle
• shortcuts for focus, kill, open in terminal, go to issue/pr in github

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
   1. Metrics
   2. Keyboard Shortcuts
   3. Query Data Programmatically
3. Compatibility
   1. Framework Compatibility
   2. Multiplexer Compatibility
   3. Terminal Compatibility

Installation

Install via script (macOS/Linux):

curl -sSL https://github.com/paradigmxyz/mi6/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Install via brew:

brew install mi6

Install via cargo:

cargo install mi6

Install via source code:

git clone https://github.com/paradigmxyz/mi6/
cd mi6
cargo install --path crates/mi6

Upgrade to latest mi6 version:

mi6 upgrade

Uninstall mi6:

mi6 uninstall

Usage

Run mi6 in terminal

Metrics

mi6 tracks 40+ live metrics for each agentic coding session including:

• status: working, idle, waiting for user input, dead
• system resources: CPU, memory, disk I/O (each including child processes)
• git info: branch, repo, worktree, issue, PR
• token counts: inputs, outputs, cache, and context size
• operations: compactions, messages, tool calls
• metadata: model, framework, session id, PID

Keyboard Shortcuts

For the complete list of keyboard shortcuts, press ? while running mi6

Session Operations

• Enter: switch window focus to selected session
• K: kill selected session
• T: open terminal in selected session's worktree / CWD

Menus

• C: config menu
• c: column customization
• f: filter menu
• t: theme menu
• ?: help menu

Panels

• p: toggle projects panel
• d: toggle details panel

Navigation

• k / j / ↑ / ↓: move up / down
• g / G: go to top / bottom
• h / l / ← / →: move left / right between panels
• Shift → / Shift ←: horizontal scroll

Other

• /: use quick filter
• a: toggle dead sessions display
• + / = / -: increase / decrease refresh rate
• q / Esc: quit

Query Data Programmatically

Query the data collected by mi6 from the command line without the interactive TUI:

mi6 session <SESSION_ID_OR_PID> --json

Specify which fields to return with --fields (all fields printed by default):

mi6 session <SESSION_ID_OR_PID> --fields status,model,cpu --json

Compatibility

mi6 can utilize the extra capabilities of certain frameworks, multiplexers, and terminals. If one of these programs has capabilities that mi6 is not yet utilizing, please file a GitHub issue.

Legend

• 🪝 Via hooks
• 📜 Via transcripts
• 🩺 Via process monitoring
• ❌ Not available

Framework Compatibility

Multiplexer Compatibility

Terminal Compatibility