shell-pool/shpool

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1927 stars · 65 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

shpool is a lightweight Rust service that provides persistent named shell sessions that survive dropped connections, serving as a minimal alternative to tmux or GNU screen. Unlike full terminal multiplexers, it only handles session persistence, preserving native scrollback and copy-paste behavior.

Use cases

• keep shell sessions alive when ssh connection drops
• lightweight alternative to tmux for persistent terminals
• re-attach to a running shell after network disconnect
• run long-running commands remotely without losing them
• persistent shell sessions without breaking native scrollback
• manage multiple named remote shell sessions

When to choose

• you only need session persistence, not window splitting or tiling
• native terminal scrollback and copy-paste are important to you
• you want a lighter-weight alternative to tmux or screen
• you ssh into remote hosts and lose sessions on flaky connections

When to avoid

• you need tmux features like window splitting, tiling, or status bars
• you need a terminal multiplexer on Windows
• you require fully stable macOS support

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools self-hosted cli terminal-multiplexer shell-sessions tmux-alternative session-persistence ssh command-line linux macos

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