Tring.Chat — Communication skill for Claude Code

tring.chat

A focus-centred terminal deck for agentic work.

Run many agent sessions at once — Claude Code, other coding agents, plain shells — and stay focused on one. The session you are working in fills the centre of the screen. Up to 16 others run in zoomed-out live thumbnails around it, so you can see them working. When a session finishes and is waiting for you, its tile turns green. Press `Ctrl+Space`, then one key, and that session is in the centre.

┌────┬────┬────┬────┬────┐
│ 1  │ 2  │ 3  │ 4  │ 5  │
├────┼────┴────┴────┼────┤
│ 16 │              │ 6  │
├────┤    focus     ├────┤
│ 15 │   terminal   │ 7  │
├────┤              ├────┤
│ 14 │              │ 8  │
├────┼────┬────┬────┼────┤
│ 13 │ 12 │ 11 │ 10 │ 9  │
└────┴────┴────┴────┴────┘

Slots are fixed. Focusing a session shows it in the centre without moving it, so the ring never shuffles and slot numbers stay in muscle memory.

Sixteen is the default, not the only option — the gear in the tab bar switches to 12, 8 or 4. See [Ring size](#ring-size).

Install

npm i -g tring-chat
tring

Node 20 or newer. node-pty ships prebuilt binaries for macOS and Windows — `darwin-x64`, `darwin-arm64`, `win32-x64`, `win32-arm64` — so those install with no compiler step.

**Linux and WSL build node-pty from source.** There is no Linux prebuild, so the install runs `node-gyp` and needs a toolchain:

sudo apt install -y build-essential python3      # Debian/Ubuntu/WSL
sudo dnf install -y gcc-c++ make python3         # Fedora/RHEL

Without those, `npm i -g tring-chat` fails while building node-pty. It takes a few seconds once they are present.

`tring` starts the daemon and opens a chromeless browser window — no address bar, no tab strip, its own taskbar entry. In that window the browser stops reserving `Ctrl+1`–`Ctrl+8` for tab switching, so slots 11–16 get their natural keys.

Windows

node-pty ships prebuilt binaries for `win32-x64` and `win32-arm64`, so no Visual Studio Build Tools,