List all active terminal sessions with their names, PIDs, working directories, and current commands.

Spawn a new named terminal session. Optionally start it in a specific directory and/or run a command immediately.

Use 'mode' to control how Claude sessions run:

• "interactive" (default): Normal foreground session with permission prompts.

• "background": Auto-allows safe tools (Bash, Edit, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Agent) but blocks destructive git commands (force push, reset --hard, branch -D, clean -f) and rm -rf. Best when you want autonomous work with guardrails.

• "resume": Resume an existing Claude session by name with the same background safety guardrails.

Send input (keystrokes) to a named terminal session. Use this to type commands, answer prompts, or send signals.

Read the current visible output from a terminal session. Returns the last N lines of output with ANSI codes stripped.

Close a terminal session by name. Sends SIGTERM to the process running in the pane.

Send a signal to a terminal session (Ctrl+C to interrupt, Ctrl+Z to suspend, Ctrl+D to EOF, etc).

Resize a terminal pane (useful before reading output from width-sensitive programs).

Take a snapshot of all terminals — names, commands, last few lines of output. Useful for getting an overview of what's happening across all sessions.

Wait for a terminal to show specific output. Polls every second up to the timeout.

Also watches for permission prompts ("Do you want to proceed") and returns immediately with a "permission_needed" status so the conductor can approve without wasting the timeout.

Returns JSON-like status: "found" (pattern matched), "permission_needed" (prompt detected), or "timeout" (neither matched in time).