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  • Unlike Cmux, Herder will not call out to multiple web services upon start-up.
    by evanjrowley
  • I've been using this and it's been really nice for a specific use case: running agents locally alongside agents in a remote sandbox environment. Most apps managing this split seem to want to manage your sandbox for you, but we've already built out some nice tooling and infrastructure for that that meets our needs. I don't want to add a new vendor in the mix for our infra that may not exist in a year and that will be harder to integrate with. Combined with some additional tooling I made, herdr lets me easily connect to remote agent sessions, see their status in the sidebar and fluidly switch back to work on my local machine from one interface.
    by willdoenlen
  • Getting a lot of flack in all these comments, I really like this tool. Have been super easy to use and scale to multiple agents. I've had a ton of issues with tmux and copy and paste, this just works. I was using warp terminal, and even working on my own fork of it with it's recent open source status, but this has won me over.
    by zachncst
  • Herdr is great, I've been using it for over a month now. Their API is awesome too - you can build tools around it.
    by nullbio
  • Will people really need a bunch of different agents? Even using two codex session for different project make me feel a bit overwhelmed, or may be i just old
    by mintflow
  • I switched from tmux to Zellij a while back, and lately added a stop hook that sends a terminal ping to the correct tab when the agent is done (and I'm not looking at the tab). It has been pretty convenient so far.

    Added an example here:

    https://johnny.chadda.se/zellij-stop-hook/

    by joch
  • The utility is not obvious, but I've been using herdr for a few weeks after a friend recommended it, and it's been a great tool.

    I had about a dozen different terminal windows, each one with multiple tabs, which was becoming a mess to manage; multiple agents and harnesses running that I could only inspect by remote access/VNC away from home.

    With this, I can keep things more organized (project workspaces, tabs), because it's backed by a persistent process, I can ssh into the machine, with tailscale, run herdr and see all active sessions, do some debugging and one-off prompts.

    Even better, I can do that from my phone and iPad using Prompt/Termius. It gives me the best part of 'xxclaw' harnesses with none of the complexity.

    by ricardobeat
  • Once you get it set up, Emacs is a pretty damn good "agent" multiplexer as well. I use agent-shell with Projectile on Doom Emacs as my main workflow these days, and it works very well even if I have 6 projects open or whatever.

    Claude and Codex are also both quite good at working with Emacs as well. Depending on your isolation/sandboxing strategy, they can either run commands against your session via emacsclient (a bit scary) or dump elisp in the REPL for you to evaluate. Both are really efficient in terms of giving you a fast feedback loop.

    by isityettime

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