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Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by coldtea »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #18

How do people use terminal multiplexers together with vim? Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself. So then you have to remap that in your terminal multiplexer, while at the same time there's a bunch of people saying never change the leader key... Curious what vim users especially do about this?

>Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself.

Give it a month and whatever you remapped will be "hardwired" too.

In any case, no reason to keep Ctrl-B in tmux either, you can remap that just as well.

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by ricardobeat »

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.

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by dandaka »

dagss wrote: post #29
hagen8 wrote: post #23

This is way to complex... Why don't just use some harness which manages all that and give u a good UI?

I have been actively searching for such a thing for months without finding it. Some are OS X only. Some will not work well with VMs/isolated agents. Currently using emdash, which is going in a great direction but somewhat new and buggy still.

What is your top chart? I am using GUI harnesses from model providers and not happy with any of them.

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by rw_panic0_0 »

mintflow wrote: post #35

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

yeah I also don't really see a use case for me, like do ppl really run that many agents in parallel that they cannot comfortably multiplex them using just a terminal emulator

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by joch »

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/

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by mynegation »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #18

How do people use terminal multiplexers together with vim? Ctrl+B is so hardwired in my fingers for scrolling back one screen that there's no way I'm remapping that one in vim itself. So then you have to remap that in your terminal multiplexer, while at the same time there's a bunch of people saying never change the leader key... Curious what vim users especially do about this?

I use tmux with vim and configure it to use Ctrl-a. Not for vim, but because I started with GNU screen that used this key. For the cases when I need actual Ctrl-a, tmux is configured to send it when I do “Ctrl-a a”.

Re: Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

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Post by Escapade5160 »

rw_panic0_0 wrote: post #37
mintflow wrote: post #35

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

yeah I also don't really see a use case for me, like do ppl really run that many agents in parallel that they cannot comfortably multiplex them using just a terminal emulator

I'm a power user and it's not an issue for me. I just use Kitty with multiple windows and panes. I can jump between using hotkeys with no problem.
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