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Comparison · Claude Squad · terminal session manager

Claude Squad is a great tmux. Aura is what happens at the commit.

Claude Squad is a small terminal manager for running several Claude Code, Codex or Aider sessions at once, each in its own Git worktree, driven from a keyboard-first TUI. It is open source, it is tiny, and it does one thing well. Aura covers the same ground from the other end: the review, the intent record and the gate that stops a bad commit.

A terminal multiplexer for agents, versus a semantic layer that judges what they commit.
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The short version

What each one is for

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What Claude Squad is great at

  • Weight

    It is a terminal program. It starts instantly, uses nothing, and has no opinions about your editor.

  • Keyboard-first

    If you already live in tmux, this is the shape of tool you want — no mouse, no window management, no app.

  • Open and small enough to read

    You can understand the whole thing in an afternoon, which is a genuine feature.

What Aura adds on top

  • What happened, in words

    A TUI shows you sessions. Aura shows you which functions changed and what they now do.

  • A commit gate

    The intent check and the deletion guard run on commit, whichever terminal produced it.

  • Proof and provenance

    A goal per task, a verdict per commit, and a record that outlives the session.

  • A desktop when you want one

    Aura has a CLI that is happy in a terminal and a desktop app for the reviewing, which is the part that benefits from pixels.

Head to head

Dimension by dimension

Surface
AuraCLI plus a desktop app; use either.
Claude SquadTerminal only.
Isolation
AuraWorktree per agent plus symbol-level claims.
Claude SquadWorktree per session.
Review
AuraAST diff and plain-language summaries.
Claude SquadWhatever the agent prints.
Proof
AuraGoal ↔ commit verdict.
Claude SquadNone.
Capabilities

Side by side

Capability
Aura
C Claude Squad
Runs in a terminal
Worktree per session
Open source
Desktop app
AST-level semantic diff
Goal ↔ commit proof verdict
Blocks unaccounted deletions
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Compared on public capabilities, mid-2026. ● full · − partial · ✕ none.
Honest advice

When to pick which

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Pick Claude Squad if…

  • You want the smallest possible thing that starts several agents.
  • A terminal is where you live and an app would be in the way.

Pick Aura if…

  • The bottleneck is reviewing what came back, not launching it.
  • You need a record of why each commit exists.
Not either/or

Keep Claude Squad. Add the control layer.

They compose well. Keep Claude Squad for launching sessions; install the Aura CLI so every commit those sessions make goes through the intent check and the deletion guard.

Questions

Aura & Claude Squad

Does Aura replace tmux?

No. Aura has a terminal of its own inside the desktop app, but the CLI is designed to sit underneath whatever launches your agents, including a tmux session you already have.

Is the Aura CLI usable without the desktop app?

Yes. Install the CLI, run aura init, and the commit hook, intent log and proof commands work with no app at all.

Ship with proof, not hope

Free public beta for macOS and Linux. Point it at a repo and keep driving Claude Squad, now with a semantic diff, a verdict and a record on every change.

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