# Show HN: Bento Term – native tmux client with agent states and voice input

> Source: <https://bentoai.dev/term/>
> Published: 2026-08-15 16:39:15+00:00

## Do I need to know tmux?

No — it's bundled and stays out of the way. If you do use tmux, Bento attaches to the
sessions you already have, and everything you know still applies.

## What do I need on the other end?

A machine you can already `ssh`

into, with `tmux`

installed —
macOS, any Linux, or WSL on Windows. Nothing else: Bento Term installs nothing there and
runs no server of its own. The app itself is Mac, iPhone and iPad; the machine your
agents work on doesn't have to be any of those.

## Which agents does it understand?

Ten presets with live state detection — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor
Agent, Copilot CLI, Amp, OpenClaw, Hermes, Antigravity — plus plain shells and any command
you type. Anything runs; the known ones also get states.

## How is state detected?

From what the pane prints, on your device, using per-agent rules. No agent has to
cooperate, nothing is installed into your shell, and nothing is sent anywhere to work it
out. It is pattern matching, so it can be wrong — the color is a hint, not a guarantee.

## Can I reach a machine behind NAT?

That's yours to arrange — Bento speaks plain SSH, so a VPN, Tailscale, or a jump host
in your `~/.ssh/config`

all work.

## Intel Macs?

Not currently — Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.

## What does it cost?

Nothing. Apache-2.0, and the app is the whole product.

## Where do I report bugs?

[GitHub issues](https://github.com/NovaShang/BentoTerm/issues) — the
tracker is public.