diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c478718..dd6e34f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ is shorthand for `moshcode start claude`. In the TUI, use `/agents <engine>` for
 autonomous mode or `/start <engine>` for raw mode. Running `moshcode agents` or
 `/agents` without an engine still lists engines and their install status.
 
+### Parallel pit tabs
+
+At the mosh prompt, `/new` opens and switches to another independent moshcode
+tab. Run `/agents <engine>` in each tab and switch between them with tmux's
+`Ctrl-b n`, `Ctrl-b p`, or `Ctrl-b <number>` keys. If moshcode is already inside
+tmux, `/new` adds a window to that session. Otherwise the first `/new` opens a
+private two-tab workspace with its tab bar at the bottom.
+
+Each tab is a separate moshcode process and provider CLIs still receive an
+ordinary inherited terminal. Moshcode does not intercept or reinterpret their
+input, output, full-screen UI, or provider-specific shortcuts. The feature
+requires `tmux`; without it `/new` reports that requirement and leaves the
+current pit untouched.
+
 The modes are not identical across providers. In particular, OpenCode `--auto`
 auto-approves permission requests but continues to enforce explicit deny rules.
 
diff --git a/src/cli-schema.mjs b/src/cli-schema.mjs
index 42ddead..b077447 100644
--- a/src/cli-schema.mjs
+++ b/src/cli-schema.mjs
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ export const VERB_TABLES = {
  * than a second, thinner copy that drifts.
  */
 export const PIT_COMMANDS = [
+  { name: "new", pitOnly: true,
+    description: "open and switch to another moshcode tab" },
   { name: "agents", aliases: ["agent", "engines"], args: "[name]", cli: "agents",
     description: "list engines, or launch one autonomously" },
   { name: "start", args: "<engine> [args…]", cli: "start",
diff --git a/src/tabs.mjs b/src/tabs.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a179ebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tabs.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+// Tmux-backed tabs for the interactive mosh pit.
+//
+// The pit deliberately hands a provider CLI the whole terminal with inherited
+// stdio. Keeping that contract matters: full-screen TUIs, mouse handling,
+// colours, signals, and provider-specific shortcuts should remain native. A
+// tab therefore cannot be an in-process readline view. It is another moshcode
+// process in another tmux window, with tmux owning the terminal multiplexing.
+import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+
+/** POSIX-shell quoting for tmux's single `shell-command` argument. */
+export function tabShellQuote(value) {
+  return `'${String(value).replace(/'/g, `'\\''`)}'`;
+}
+
+/** Command run in every tab. Always opens a fresh pit, never repeats argv. */
+export function tabCommand({ execPath = process.execPath, entry = process.argv[1] } = {}) {
+  if (!entry) throw new Error("can't locate the moshcode entrypoint");
+  return `exec ${tabShellQuote(execPath)} ${tabShellQuote(entry)}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Pure tmux command plan, split out so the safety-sensitive argv is testable
+ * without opening real windows in the test runner.
+ */
+export function tabPlan({
+  cwd = process.cwd(),
+  command = tabCommand(),
+  tmux = process.env.TMUX,
+  pid = process.pid,
+  stamp = Date.now(),
+} = {}) {
+  if (tmux) {
+    return {
+      dedicated: false,
+      session: null,
+      socket: null,
+      required: [["new-window", "-c", cwd, "-n", "mosh", command]],
+      optional: [],
+      attach: null,
+    };
+  }
+
+  // A private server gets the current environment at creation time. Reusing a
+  // detached default server here could give provider CLIs stale PATH/API vars.
+  const suffix = `${pid}-${stamp}`.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/g, "-");
+  const socket = `moshcode-${suffix}`;
+  const session = `moshcode-${suffix}`;
+  const server = ["-L", socket];
+  return {
+    dedicated: true,
+    session,
+    socket,
+    required: [
+      [...server, "new-session", "-d", "-s", session, "-c", cwd, "-n", "mosh 1", command],
+      // Do not use -d: selecting the new window avoids assuming whether the
+      // user's tmux config starts window indexes at 0 or 1.
+      [...server, "new-window", "-t", session, "-c", cwd, "-n", "mosh 2", command],
+    ],
+    // Presentation is best-effort: an older tmux should still open the tabs.
+    optional: [
+      [...server, "set-option", "-t", session, "status", "on"],
+      [...server, "set-option", "-t", session, "status-position", "bottom"],
+      [...server, "set-option", "-t", session, "status-right", " Ctrl-b n/p · /new "],
+    ],
+    attach: [...server, "attach-session", "-t", session],
+  };
+}
+
+function resultError(result) {
+  if (result?.error?.code === "ENOENT") return "tmux is not installed";
+  if (result?.error) return result.error.message || String(result.error);
+  const detail = String(result?.stderr || result?.stdout || "").trim();
+  return detail || `tmux exited ${result?.status ?? "without a status"}`;
+}
+
+function runAttached(args, { spawner = spawn, env = process.env } = {}) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    let child;
+    try { child = spawner("tmux", args, { stdio: "inherit", env }); }
+    catch (error) { resolve({ ok: false, error }); return; }
+    child.on("error", (error) => resolve({ ok: false, error }));
+    child.on("exit", (code, signal) => resolve({ ok: code === 0, code, signal }));
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Open and switch to a new pit tab.
+ *
+ * Inside tmux this adds one window to the current session. Outside tmux it
+ * starts a private two-window workspace and attaches to it; this is the only
+ * way the already-running, non-tmux pit can gain a sibling without replacing
+ * the provider-friendly inherited-stdio architecture.
+ */
+export async function openNewTab({
+  cwd = process.cwd(),
+  env = process.env,
+  isTTY = Boolean(process.stdin.isTTY && process.stdout.isTTY),
+  runner = spawnSync,
+  spawner = spawn,
+  execPath = process.execPath,
+  entry = process.argv[1],
+  pid = process.pid,
+  stamp = Date.now(),
+} = {}) {
+  if (!isTTY) return { ok: false, error: new Error("/new needs an interactive terminal") };
+
+  let command;
+  try { command = tabCommand({ execPath, entry }); }
+  catch (error) { return { ok: false, error }; }
+  const plan = tabPlan({ cwd, command, tmux: env.TMUX, pid, stamp });
+
+  for (const args of plan.required) {
+    const result = runner("tmux", args, { encoding: "utf8", env });
+    if (result?.status !== 0) {
+      // Only a private server created by this call is eligible for cleanup.
+      if (plan.dedicated) {
+        runner("tmux", ["-L", plan.socket, "kill-server"], { stdio: "ignore", env });
+      }
+      return { ok: false, error: new Error(resultError(result)) };
+    }
+  }
+  for (const args of plan.optional) runner("tmux", args, { stdio: "ignore", env });
+
+  if (!plan.attach) return { ok: true, dedicated: false };
+  const attached = await runAttached(plan.attach, { spawner, env });
+  if (!attached.ok) {
+    return { ok: false, error: attached.error || new Error(`tmux attach exited ${attached.code ?? attached.signal ?? "unknown"}`) };
+  }
+  return { ok: true, dedicated: true, session: plan.session, socket: plan.socket };
+}
diff --git a/src/tui.mjs b/src/tui.mjs
index bb9ba91..cd2fa58 100644
--- a/src/tui.mjs
+++ b/src/tui.mjs
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { mcpCommand, skillCommand } from "./integrations.mjs";
 import { banner, hr, acid, ash, bone, dim, ok, err, warn, info, moshcodeVersion } from "./ui.mjs";
 import { CORE_CLI_COMMAND_NAMES } from "./cli-schema.mjs";
 import { findPitCommand, pitHelpModel, renderPitCommand, suggest, wantsHelp } from "./help.mjs";
+import { openNewTab } from "./tabs.mjs";
 
 const PROMPT = () => acid("mosh ") + dim("▸ ");
 
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ export async function tui() {
   printEngines();
   console.log();
   printTools();
-  console.log("\n" + ash("  /help for commands · /quit to leave") + "\n");
+  console.log("\n" + ash("  /help for commands · /new for a tab · /quit to leave") + "\n");
 
   const ad = await motd;
   if (ad) console.log(dim(ad) + "\n");
@@ -503,6 +504,24 @@ export async function tui() {
       printHelp(cmd);
       continue;
     }
+    if (cmd === "new") {
+      if (rest.length) { console.log(err("usage: /new")); continue; }
+      if (!process.stdin.isTTY || !process.stdout.isTTY) {
+        console.log(err("/new needs an interactive terminal"));
+        continue;
+      }
+      rl.close();
+      console.log(info(process.env.TMUX
+        ? "opening a new mosh tab — switch with Ctrl-b n/p or Ctrl-b <number>…"
+        : "opening a two-tab mosh workspace — switch with Ctrl-b n/p or Ctrl-b <number>…"));
+      const result = await openNewTab();
+      if (!result.ok) {
+        console.log(err(`can't open a tab: ${result.error?.message || result.error}`));
+        console.log(ash("   /new uses tmux so every provider CLI still owns a real terminal"));
+      }
+      rl = mkrl();
+      continue;
+    }
     if (cmd === "pwd" || cmd === "where") { printPwd(); continue; }
     if (cmd === "login") {
       const device = rest.includes("--device") || rest.includes("device") || rest.includes("-d");
diff --git a/test/tabs.test.mjs b/test/tabs.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1224994
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tabs.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import test from "node:test";
+
+import { tabCommand, tabPlan, tabShellQuote } from "../src/tabs.mjs";
+
+test("tab shell quoting keeps paths as one shell word", () => {
+  assert.equal(tabShellQuote("/tmp/it's here"), "'/tmp/it'\\''s here'");
+});
+
+test("a tab command opens a fresh pit with the current entrypoint", () => {
+  assert.equal(
+    tabCommand({ execPath: "/opt/node bin/node", entry: "/tmp/mosh coder/bin/moshcode.mjs" }),
+    "exec '/opt/node bin/node' '/tmp/mosh coder/bin/moshcode.mjs'",
+  );
+});
+
+test("/new inside tmux creates one window in the current session", () => {
+  const plan = tabPlan({
+    cwd: "/work/space here",
+    command: "moshcode-command",
+    tmux: "/tmp/tmux,1,0",
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(plan.dedicated, false);
+  assert.deepEqual(plan.required, [[
+    "new-window", "-c", "/work/space here", "-n", "mosh", "moshcode-command",
+  ]]);
+  assert.equal(plan.attach, null);
+});
+
+test("/new outside tmux builds a private two-tab workspace", () => {
+  const plan = tabPlan({ cwd: "/repo", command: "moshcode-command", tmux: "", pid: 42, stamp: 99 });
+
+  assert.equal(plan.dedicated, true);
+  assert.equal(plan.socket, "moshcode-42-99");
+  assert.deepEqual(plan.required[0], [
+    "-L", "moshcode-42-99", "new-session", "-d", "-s", "moshcode-42-99",
+    "-c", "/repo", "-n", "mosh 1", "moshcode-command",
+  ]);
+  assert.deepEqual(plan.required[1], [
+    "-L", "moshcode-42-99", "new-window", "-t", "moshcode-42-99",
+    "-c", "/repo", "-n", "mosh 2", "moshcode-command",
+  ]);
+  assert.deepEqual(plan.attach, [
+    "-L", "moshcode-42-99", "attach-session", "-t", "moshcode-42-99",
+  ]);
+  assert.ok(plan.optional.some((args) => args.includes("bottom")));
+});
diff --git a/test/tui.test.mjs b/test/tui.test.mjs
index 035dfe5..4f6dc0f 100644
--- a/test/tui.test.mjs
+++ b/test/tui.test.mjs
@@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ test("TUI /install rejects an Object.prototype name instead of crashing the pit"
   assert.doesNotMatch(result.stderr, /TypeError/);
 });
 
+test("TUI /new requires a real terminal", async () => {
+  const result = await runTui("/new\n/quit\n");
+
+  assert.equal(result.status, 0, result.stderr || result.stdout);
+  assert.match(result.stdout, /\/new needs an interactive terminal/);
+});
+
 // The pit persists every line typed at the prompt to ~/.moshcode_history, and
 // the documented flows put secrets on those lines (`/mcp install <url> -H
 // "Authorization: Bearer …"`, `/secrets`, `/coinpay`, `!export TOKEN=…`). The