Reading up on Herdr

herdr + hunk is a good combo

@bentlegen

Herdr is tmux rebuilt around coding agents. Real terminals. Persistent workspaces. A sidebar showing who’s working, blocked, done, or idle. A CLI and API agents can control. I looked at how it works, the tradeoffs, and where I’d use it: https://flaviocopes.com/herdr/

@flaviocopes

this is great! but don't leave claudes alone :( in herdr any agent can talk to any agent. no protocol, no MCP, no setup. it's just terminals.

@herdrdev

I tried @jack's Buzz. It's like Slack + OpenClaw + Herdr + but with some really unique features that people are sleeping on. The video below shows how it works, and some of my thoughts on the process and platform, e.g.: - Create and interact with agents on top of any harness (claude code, codex, pi, etc.) - Choose which models agents use, including local ones - Agents can delegate work and work in parallel in git worktrees - Agents are first-class citizens and work like humans (creating channels, delegating, access to chat history) - You can share AI compute within a community - It's completely open-source and decentralized Things I like: - Delegating work in chat feels natural: tag an agent, it replies in a thread with status updates as it e.g. compiles, commits, and deploys. - Shared compute: relay owners can share local compute with members, so a community could pool funds for one beefy machine running a local model and everyone uses it. - It's built on Nostr, an open protocol already tied into Bitcoin Lightning so I can imagine communities tipping each other or paying for compute/agent tasks with instant zero-fee micropayments in the future. - It ties together things like OpenClaw, an agent manager, and Slack-style chat into one tool. Things I didn't like: - You can't see what the agent is doing in a terminal. The activity view exists, but if you're used to watching a session run, this UI feels a bit abstracted. A terminal view would be great. - It feels slower than running a session in Claude Code, though no evidence to back that up. For that reason I found myself doing one-off tasks in the terminal instead. Verdict: - I really like it so far and can genuinely imagine working with a team this way. - It doesn't feel ready for big, complex tasks yet. For shallower tasks, it's perfect. - The shared compute + Nostr/Lightning angle is what really separates it from every other agent manager for me, and I think that future is coming.

@hot_town

For everyone just getting on herdr. Wait till you use via termius/tailscale I've been using it for 2 weeks now. Super impress and it's made it much easier to maneuver. Detach and come back: Press prefix+q or simply close your terminal window. The Herdr server and every agent keep running. Run herdr again to reattach to the same session. To actually end the session and stop its panes: herdr server stop

@aijoey