tobi: keep commands running in detachable sessions across your devices

# ptr.pet/tobi Source: [https://tangled.org/ptr.pet/tobi](https://tangled.org/ptr.pet/tobi) `tobi`keeps commands running in detachable sessions across your devices\. `tobi \-\- nu`spins up a daemon with the command running\. the daemon will automatically detach if you close your terminal window\. detached sessions will be cleaned up after 24h of them being detached\.`tobi host\.id \-\- nu`creates a session on that target, and since host is optional you can`tobi \.id \-\- nu`to create a session with that specific id\! hosts can carry a user \(`tobi you@host\.id`\) when your ssh config doesn't already set one, or you want to use a different user\. you can access it from any of your other devices on your tailscale network by running`tobi`, which opens up a fuzzy selector with all the sessions across your network, one row per host: enter on a host row starts a login shell there, so you can open a session without leaving the picker\. hosts that are offline or unreachable are listed but can't be picked\. you can also just do`tobi hx`,`tobi host\.<TAB\>`or`tobi hs\.id`to attach a session using fuzzy search\. unlike tmux, tobi doesn't nest\. running tobi inside a tobi session will just replace your session with the target session\. multiple viewers can attach to a single tobi session \(in that case minimum terminal size will be used\)\. ## requirements[\#](https://tangled.org/ptr.pet/tobi#requirements) tobi uses`tssh`if it's in PATH, otherwise`ssh`\.`tailscale`binary is only required for discovery to function, nothing else\. ## installation[\#](https://tangled.org/ptr.pet/tobi#installation) there is a nix flake so you can use that, just do`nix profile add git\+https://tangled\.org/ptr\.pet/tobi`\. or`nix\-env \-f \. \-i tobi`\(or`nix profile add \-f \.`\)\. otherwise get go and compile it\! if you run target tobi to a host that doesn't have it, then tobi will install itself onto the user's`~/\.local/bin`\(or equivalent\) automatically, or upgrade an outdated tobi if the one on the target host is a different version\. if you use the nix package or build with carriers \(see \./scripts\) then you can infect other machines with tobi as long as the os/arch is supported, which are linux amd64, arm64 & macos arm64\. ## acknowledgements[\#](https://tangled.org/ptr.pet/tobi#acknowledgements) charm ui libs and tailscale\. llms were also used while making this \(i leave how much up to the reader if you care ^^\)\.