Monitoring Non-interactive Terminal Sessions with Sentinel

Lately I have found myself dealing with more and more terminal sessions on my Mac. These were not just sessions where I had specific areas of work open. These were long running processes. Local website servers. Local LLM servers. Processes to serve dashboards and apps. While gathering them into multiple tabs on one Terminal window helped, I would end up on that window when I didn’t need to be. I began having trouble finding the right tab, and even came close more than once to killing processes that I wanted to keep running. This was quickly becoming a problem rather than simply an occasional inconvenience. I looked for a solution, but did not find anything that quite matched my need. This then became an opportunity to build something to help me manage these sessions, and so the idea for Sentinel began to emerge.