mi6

Tool for monitoring and managing coding agents

Features:

• Informative: monitor 40+ live metrics per session (see metrics below)
• Versatile: monitors any workflow, can be used alongside other tools
• Customizable: choose the columns, sorting, filtering, theming
• Fast: instant startup, low input latency, consumes almost no CPU / RAM
• Compatible: Claude Code, OAI Codex, Gemini CLI
• Controllable: intuitive + efficient keyboard shortcuts
• QoL: many small things

mi6 makes it easy to monitor and manage many agentic sessions in parallel:

• double-click a session to change window focus to that session
• can see which sessions are 1. waiting on user input 2. working 3. idle
• shortcuts for focus, kill, open in terminal, go to issue/pr in github

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
   1. Metrics
   2. Keyboard Shortcuts
   3. Query Data Programmatically

Installation

Install via brew:

brew install mi6

Install via cargo:

cargo install mi6

Install via source code:

git clone https://github.com/paradigmxyz/mi6/
cd mi6
cargo install --path crates/mi6

Upgrade to latest mi6 version:

mi6 upgrade

Uninstall mi6:

mi6 uninstall

Usage

Run mi6 in terminal

Metrics

mi6 tracks 40+ live metrics for each agentic coding session including:

• status: working, idle, waiting for user input, dead
• system resources: CPU, memory, disk I/O (each including child processes)
• git info: branch, repo, worktree, issue, PR
• token counts: inputs, outputs, cache, and context size
• operations: compactions, messages, tool calls
• metadata: model, framework, session id, PID

Keyboard Shortcuts

For the complete list of keyboard shortcuts, press ? while running mi6

Session Operations

• Enter: switch window focus to selected session
• K: kill selected session
• T: open terminal in selected session's worktree / CWD

Menus

• C: config menu
• c: column customization
• f: filter menu
• t: theme menu
• ?: help menu

Panels

• p: toggle projects panel
• d: toggle details panel

Navigation

• k / j / ↑ / ↓: move up / down
• g / G: go to top / bottom
• h / l / ← / →: move left / right between panels
• Shift → / Shift ←: horizontal scroll

Other

• /: use quick filter
• a: toggle dead sessions display
• + / = / -: increase / decrease refresh rate
• q / Esc: quit

Query Data Programmatically

Query the data collected by mi6 from the command line without the interactive TUI:

mi6 session <SESSION_ID_OR_PID> --json

Specify which fields to return with --fields (all fields printed by default):

mi6 session <SESSION_ID_OR_PID> --fields status,model,cpu --json