[FEATURE] Agent Teams: add Windows Terminal split pane support
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Problem Statement
Agent Teams display modes currently support tmux (Linux/macOS) and iTerm2 (macOS) for split pane viewing of teammate activity. On Windows, the only available option is in-process, which shows all teammates in a single pane with Shift+Down to cycle through them.
This makes monitoring 3+ teammates impractical — you can only see one at a time and must manually cycle. Windows is a significant portion of the developer market, and Windows users currently get a degraded Agent Teams experience.
Proposed Solution
Add a display: wt mode that uses Windows Terminal's native CLI for split panes:
wt -w 0 sp -H --title "teammate-1" cmd /c "claude ..."
wt -w 0 sp -V --title "teammate-2" cmd /c "claude ..."
Windows Terminal (default on Windows 11) supports:
- Horizontal (
-H) and vertical (-V) splits viawtCLI - Named panes with
--title - Programmable focus switching
- The
wtcommand is available system-wide
Detection: check if wt.exe is available on PATH (present on all Windows 11 installs and Windows 10 with Windows Terminal installed).
Alternative Solutions
display: web— a localhost web dashboard showing all teammate activity in a browser (cross-platform, would work everywhere)display: log— each teammate writes to a separate log file, user monitors withtail -for similar- Current workaround: using
in-processmode and cycling through teammates with Shift+Down — functional but impractical for 3+ teammates
Priority
Medium - Would be very helpful
Feature Category
Interactive mode (TUI)
Use Case Example
- I have a conductor agent that spawns 3-4 teammates (laravel-dev, frontend-dev, security-auditor, code-reviewer)
- I want to monitor all teammates working simultaneously
- With
display: wt, Windows Terminal would split into panes, each showing a teammate's progress in real time - This matches the experience that tmux/iTerm2 users already have on Linux/macOS
Additional Context
- This is documented as a known limitation in the official docs
- Windows Terminal
wtCLI reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-line-arguments - The
wtapproach is analogous to howtmuxandiTerm2modes work — launching subprocesses in terminal-managed panes - Agent Teams is an experimental feature enabled via
CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1
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