SSH on panes and run commands in the new shell

[bruno-rescale]

Hi, I have the below itermocil template and it works partially. When I execute it, it opens 3 panes in the right layout and it runs an ssh command (from a variable) and logs in successfully. However the second and third panes do not run ps faux and top even after sleeping a few seconds. I noticed that once I exit those ssh sessions, the ps and top commands will run but I want them to run in the ssh'ed session. Is there a way to do this?

 windows:
   - name: quichssh
     root: ~
     layout: main-vertical
     panes:
       - commands:
         - ${ssh}
       - commands:
         - ${ssh}
         - sleep 2 && ps faux
       - commands:
         - ${ssh}
         - sleep 2 && top

I saw a prevoius post about adding -t flag to the ssh command but lets' assume i can't change ${ssh} as it's coming from another automated variable. As a last resource, I can try to parse and change ${ssh} and append -t as an additional argument if there is nothing else to do. But my priority is to see if there is an easier way. Thanks in advanced!

[cemiu]

While not useful for this exact issue, when the ssh command is known this can be used:

ssh <server> -t "bash -ic '<commands here, separated by semicolons>; bash -l'"
# e.g.: create ssh tunnel, load python env, then start jupyter server
ssh <server> -L 8810:cn50:8888 -t "bash -ic 'lpy; jupyter lab --ip 0.0.0.0 --no-browser; bash -l'"

It allows to run commands after loading .bashrc, then keeps the interactive shell alive.