Herdr
Keeps your terminals and coding agents in one window and shows which ones need you
by Herdr
Herdr Terminal
by HerdrCLI toolWrite code
Keeps coding agents running in terminal panes and shows which one is waiting for you
About Herdr Terminal
Herdr Terminal keeps your coding agents in terminal panes, shows which are working, blocked, done or idle, and keeps them running when you detach or lose your connection.
For Developers running coding agentsTerminal users
Made by Herdr
Herdr publishes this terminal program as an open-source project on GitHub, and also makes a separate Herdr desktop app. Its site is herdr.dev.
- Stars
- ★ 49k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost
- Free
- Platforms
- Mac · Linux · Win
- Level
- Intermediate
Overview
Herdr Terminal is a terminal program for running several coding agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, side by side. It keeps your terminals running in a background server, so closing the window or losing an SSH connection does not stop the work, and it marks each agent as working, blocked, done or idle. You can add saved SSH machines and see all their agents in one list. It suits developers who run more than one agent at a time.
You can detach and come back to the same session later, and the sidebar points to the agent that is stuck instead of making you check every pane.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- Start herdr in [project folder], run your coding agent in a pane and ask it to explain the project. Watch its mark in the sidebar.First try · read-only
- Detach with ctrl+b q, close the terminal, then run herdr again and check that the agent is still there.keeps agents running
- Add a saved SSH machine and list its agents next to your local ones.uses SSH
- Ask a second agent in another pane to wait until the first one is blocked, using the herdr command line.agents control panes
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
Features
From the creator's documentation.
| Feature | What it does | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Detach and reattach | Terminals keep running in a background server when you close the client or lose SSH | Your computer |
| Agent marks | Every pane is marked working, blocked or idle, so you see which agent needs an answer | Your computer |
| Several machines | Keeps local work and saved SSH machines together with a combined agent list | SSH |
| Agent control | Agents can spawn panes, prompt each other and wait through the command line and socket API | Your computer |
| Plugins | Extend panes and workflows with plugins from a marketplace | Third-party plugins |
Good to know
You run two or three coding agents at once and keep missing the one that stopped to ask a question. Herdr Terminal keeps each agent in its own pane, marks its state, and lets you close the window and come back later.
Limits
- After a server or machine restart, Herdr restores the saved layout and can resume supported agent sessions, but the original processes do not survive.
- Agents that Herdr does not support still run in a pane, but they show up as plain terminals without a working or blocked mark.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: herdr), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Herdr README: install and features · Herdr quick start · Herdr supported agents
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