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Herdr

Herdr is a desktop application for terminals and coding agents, written in Rust on top of Ghostty's terminal engine. It organizes work into spaces, tabs, and panes, while an agents sidebar collects agents from those spaces and shows whether each is working, blocked, done, or idle.

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Overview

Its core keeps terminals running after the window closes; panes and spaces can run on local or SSH-connected machines, with remote work continuing while the local window is closed or the computer sleeps. The app supports layouts and JavaScript mods for customizing panels, menus, and dialogs, and provides command-line commands for inspecting the window and agent-driving guidance.

Herdr is distributed for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with installers and source-build instructions in its repository. Release builds check for updates in the background and enable usage telemetry by default, which can be disabled in the privacy settings.

What Herdr is used for

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  • A desktop app for running terminals and coding agents in one window, written in Rust on top of Ghostty's terminal engine. Organizes work into spaces, tabs, and panes, shows agent status in a sidebar, and keeps terminals running in the background.

  • Rust desktop app arranging terminals and coding-agent sessions into customizable layouts for watching many agents at once.

Videos mentioning Herdr

2 in the library.