The Self-Healing Agent Pattern
Why reliable agents need automatic recovery, not just error handling.
Traditional error handling assumes you can predict failure modes. Self-healing agents monitor for symptoms and apply corrective actions — even for failures you didn't anticipate.
amux's approach
The watchdog runs on every status check cycle, parsing terminal output for known patterns. When it detects a problem, it applies the least-disruptive fix.
Get started with amux
Run dozens of Claude Code agents in parallel. Python 3 + tmux. Open source.
git clone https://github.com/mixpeek/amux && cd amux && ./install.sh
amux register myproject --dir ~/Dev/myproject --yolo
amux start myproject
amux serve # → https://localhost:8822