I actually enjoy herdr a lot, and not just for agent management but the whole multiplexer is plenty powerful defaults and easier than tmux.<p>At some point though, it's too much information for my tiny human brain to process, even more than 3 agents is hard to manage and context switch. What is the point of managing herd of swarm of whatever I wonder?
It's something you pick up as a skill. I used to struggle with 3 and would genuinely exhaust me at the end of the day, now I can do 6 to 7 without too many problems. I actually get so much done that I don't even know what to do anymore as I finish my work in few hours at best.
Soon we will manage factories, then it will just turn into factorio at work.
Using their name, logo, and css styles - community project.<p>Feels wildly misleading.
The name/logo sounds/looks a lot like Rancher (<a href="https://www.rancher.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.rancher.com</a>) which is "herding" (docker) containers.
It looks amazing in the beginning but with work done on 5 remote machines herdr just gets laggy after couple of hours and basically becomes almost unsable.
Herdr has been my daily driver for about a month now. It cant auto-name sessions like every other multiplexer though. That one stupid feature is so valuable I'm considering moving on.
Where are you looking to move to? I agree that it seems like an obvious feature to be missing.
They have a plugin ecosystem, one of which is auto-named sessions. I imagine implementing your own wouldn't be too difficult either, if that one doesn't meet your standards of trust.<p>You could even just make a harness hook in Claude or Codex after installing the Herdr skill, telling the LLM itself to update names on start.<p>Heck, I think <i>this</i> works via the plugin system?
Look at that: <a href="https://github.com/kryptamine/herdr-auto-title" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kryptamine/herdr-auto-title</a><p>I must say I didn't know this existed. I looked into having the LLM name herdr sessions but found that tabs aren't addressable - the agent doesn't know which tab it's running in to target it for renaming.<p>The plugin is interesting and the defaults are terrible, but I think I could get what I need here. Thanks for your comment!
This does not seem to be an official product by Herdr themselves.<p>Use at your own risk.
Yeah, the way it's aesthetically framed like it's official immediate skeeves me out. I doubt it's intentional, given they clearly state "community" at the top, and more a case of poor judgement and AI look-aliking.
My setup is ghostty with herdr and this is so much better than using tmux or anything else. The one issue I have with herdr is its default key bindings are not familiar with anything I’ve used before. But it is easy to make Claude configure this - I found you can bind cmd-<key> sequences n addition to ctrl and alt modifiers.
The only thing I’m missing is viewing rendered markdown and mermaid charts as part of the agent outputs.