Herdr is a native desktop app for organizing terminal work and coding agents. Work is grouped into spaces, usually tied to a project or machine; tabs and split panes let users arrange terminals and panels. A sidebar gathers agents across spaces, including agents launched by other agents, and marks them as working, blocked, done, or idle. Users can inspect agents in a pane or temporarily peek at workers without one. The app’s window manages the workspace, while herdr-core runs the terminals separately: closing the window leaves them running, though closing a pane or tab ends its terminals. After a reboot or core crash, saved panes reopen with fresh shells rather than restoring their former programs.
Herdr also supports SSH-connected machines, whose spaces and live terminals continue running remotely while the local app is closed or a laptop sleeps, provided the remote host and core remain available. Users can customize layouts, colors, fonts, sounds, and key bindings, and extend the interface with JavaScript mods, which are trusted code rather than sandboxed extensions. Installers are offered for Linux, Apple Silicon Macs, and x64 Windows; Intel Mac users can build from source. Release builds check for updates and enable usage telemetry by default, which can be disabled in settings. The project provides agent-facing CLI commands, documentation, contribution guidance, and build and test instructions.
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