TaskYou vs cmux / Warp

One line: cmux and Warp are polished apps for running agents on your machine; TaskYou is the same job as a board that runs anywhere — terminal, browser, desktop, email, and over SSH — and is built to queue work and walk away.

cmux (a Mac terminal app for agents) and Warp (an agentic development platform / terminal) both bet on a beautiful, local, GUI-forward experience. TaskYou bets on autonomy and reach: file an outcome, let an agent run it in the background in an isolated worktree, and pick up the result from whatever device you have.

What cmux / Warp are good at

Polished, native UX. Warp in particular is a gorgeous terminal with first-class agent

features; cmux is a focused Mac app for driving agents. If you want a beautiful local cockpit, this is the camp.

Low friction on your own machine. Install the app, open it, go. No daemon mental model, no

SSH server to think about.

Rich interactive features baked into the app — completions, blocks, agent panes, and so on.

If you primarily work on one Mac and want the most polished local agent experience, these are strong, and TaskYou doesn't try to out-pretty them.

Where TaskYou is different

	TaskYou	cmux / Warp
Center of gravity	A task board + queue	A polished terminal/app you drive
Queue + background execution	✅ stack work, walk away	❌ you drive sessions live
Worktree-per-task isolation	✅ automatic	◐ varies
PR-aware completion	✅	❌
Pluggable executors (6)	✅ per task	◐ tied to the app's agent(s)
Routines (scheduled unattended runs)	✅	❌
Runs on a headless server / over SSH	✅ `taskd`	❌ desktop-bound (cmux); ◐ (Warp)
Same board on web + email + Chrome	✅	❌
Open source	✅ MIT	◐

Two differences matter most:

Autonomy. cmux and Warp are places you drive agents. TaskYou is a place you hand off

work: queue a column, walk away, come back to diffs. The board, the worktrees, and the PR-aware lifecycle exist so you don't have to sit in the loop.

Reach beyond the desktop. A desktop app lives on the desktop. TaskYou runs the same board

in your terminal, your browser (ty serve), a desktop app, over SSH (taskd, so it can live on a remote box or a cloud VM), via email (create and unblock tasks from your phone with the ty-email extension), and through a Chrome extension for annotate-and-fix loops. You can kick off work from a VM you SSH into and review it from your phone.

When to pick which

Pick cmux / Warp when:

You want the most polished local, GUI agent experience and you live on one machine.
You're driving agents hands-on and don't need a queue, a scheduler, or remote surfaces.
Native app niceties (blocks, completions, design) are what you're optimizing for.

Pick TaskYou when:

You want to queue outcomes and walk away, not drive every session by hand.
You want worktree isolation + PR-aware tracking as defaults.
You need to run agents on a remote/cloud box and triage them from any device —

including your phone, by email.

You want multiple executors and scheduled routines on one open-source (MIT) board.

They can coexist: TaskYou can run on a server and own the queue and worktrees while you use a slick local terminal (Warp, cmux, or anything else) as the place you drop in to take the wheel on a single task.

Accuracy note: TaskYou capabilities are documented in the README and the extensions/ty-* READMEs. cmux/Warp entries reflect their general positioning as desktop/terminal agent apps; ◐ marks places their scope varies or we haven't individually verified a feature. This is a category comparison, not a feature audit. PRs welcome to correct anything.