captain-miao vs rimz
Terminal dashboards for AI coding sessions compared
captain-miao and rimz are Rust tools for monitoring and managing coding agents in terminal environments. captain-miao focuses on tracking sessions across supported terminals, including persistent remote sessions; rimz adds team coordination, worktrees, messaging, and automation within tmux and Zellij.
captain-miao: Monitor and Manage AI Coding Sessions in Your Terminal
A Rust-based mission-control dashboard for AI coding sessions in terminal windows, tabs, and panes. Track sessions that need attention, jump to them, and keep remote sessions running across disconnects.
rimz: Manage Coding Agents in tmux and Zellij
RimZ is a realtime control room for coding agents, built on tmux and Zellij. Its Rust CLI brings agent status, messaging, teams, worktrees, and automation into the terminal sessions you already use.
| captain-miao | rimz | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Rust | Rust |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 45 | 33 |
| Forks | 5 | 2 |
| Last analyzed | Oct 28, 2026 | Oct 25, 2026 |
Key differences
- captain-miao brings sessions from supported agents into a dashboard and focuses their native terminal windows or panes; rimz presents agents running in tmux or Zellij panes in a shared control room.
- captain-miao supports Kitty and Zellij, with additional terminal support described in its README; rimz is built around tmux and Zellij.
- captain-miao offers SSH-hosted persistent sessions through miao-server and shpool; rimz supports reconnecting to rooms over SSH and browser access.
- rimz includes role-based teams, isolated Git worktrees, durable messaging, scripted supervision, scheduling, and budgets; captain-miao focuses on session visibility, terminal navigation, and start, resume, fork, or stop controls.
- Both projects are Rust-based and MIT-licensed; captain-miao has 45 stars and 5 forks, while rimz has 33 stars and 2 forks.
- captain-miao is a rapidly changing project with contribution activity concentrated among nearly one person; rimz is beta software with activity concentrated among three contributors, overwhelmingly one person.
Choose captain-miao if you…
- want to keep your existing terminal workflow while viewing sessions from several supported agents.
- need sessions to keep running on an SSH host through disconnects, using miao-server.
- want to jump directly to a session's native terminal window, tab, or pane.
Choose rimz if you…
- need team roles, shared worktrees, or messaging to coordinate agent work.
- want to run supervised agent tasks from scripts or CI, or schedule runs in response to events.
- need agent status details such as context health, token usage, cost, and subagent relationships in tmux or Zellij.
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