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I really liked Tmux and Zellij for the time being, but Herdr does it all so much better out of the box when it comes to agentic coding. I haven't found something I can do with tmux/zellij but can't do with herdr.

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Only problem with Herdr is the VC funding. Not sure what the rug pull will be, but it's coming sooner or later.

Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a shot, but I fond herdr was solving the wrong problem for me. I want to manage shipping work, gtd, not a bunch of agent sessions. The sessions are an implementation detail that I prefer jumping into only when something is wrong.

You can. I use it exactly that way with the individual terminal sessions accessible.

I'm mostly using it now because it integrates with ssh while still supporting image paste. I also use it via it's json API for a harness I'm working on which is agent agnostic.

I do expect I'll move off it if it becomes hostile and another tool takes it's place.

My only problem with herdr is its propensity to randomly crash and take out the whole session. At one point it was crashing once or twice a day, recently it’s more like every two weeks, but it still crashes. I have auto session resume on but that still means ongoing work is interrupted and I have to manually restart all the long running non-agent processes.

As a result I still run sessions and processes I really don’t want to lose inside tmux, nested inside herdr. Tmux never crashes.

As a counterpoint, I use herdr in WSL/windows and has never crashed for me.

If you’re mainly just using Claude Code, “$ claude agents” view is a good alternative coupled with tmux. I’m curious if herdr does other things though.

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