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Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by linsomniac »

I've been using Herdr for running my AI agents and it has been really nice. I like that I can reconnect to it from multiple sessions (I have one up in a window on my desktop, and when I ssh in from my "after hours" laptop I can also attach to it there and continue one if I'm at my son's Dr appt or the like. I can also attach to it natively from my Mac over SSH transport as well as resuming a remote wezterm connection that is running herdr.

A few small downsides: I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection. The mouse drag in herdr works very well though. It'd also be nice if you could rebind key mappings in the UI, because I still haven't rebound the keys and am using the mouse.

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by dbl000 »

linsomniac wrote: post #3

I've been using Herdr for running my AI agents and it has been really nice. I like that I can reconnect to it from multiple sessions (I have one up in a window on my desktop, and when I ssh in from my "after hours" laptop I can also attach to it there and continue one if I'm at my son's Dr appt or the like. I can also attach to it natively from my Mac over SSH transport as well as resuming a remote wezterm connection…

How is this different from sshing into a server and attaching to a tmux session? I don't see the benefits in switching over.

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by dagss »

Is there git worktree support?

With the long waits for agents to do stuff I really don't see how one can get anything done without multitasking with multiple worktrees in parallel. So I'd want support for listing the worktrees and then have a list of agents within each worktree.

Emdash and Nimbalyst have this kind of UI. Unfortunately both of them want to manage the state of each worktree group themselves; I'm looking for something that just would just call git worktree directly so that I can switch more seamlessly between CLI and IDE/TUI..

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by spudlyo »

So I've tried to figure out why you might want to use this over Tmux, and essentially I think it comes to down to:

- everything is mouse clickable

- tmux style display-popups are used for friendly UI interactions everywhere

- it has a UI for agents running in panes, with a cool status (idle/working) display

- has opinionated defaults like automatic clipboard copy on mouse text select

- makes nested sessions easier & has default affordances for remote SSH attach

- is generally prettier

- uses display-popups for notifications

Otherwise it seems exactly like tmux.

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by dv_dt »

dagss wrote: post #6

Is there git worktree support? With the long waits for agents to do stuff I really don't see how one can get anything done without multitasking with multiple worktrees in parallel. So I'd want support for listing the worktrees and then have a list of agents within each worktree. Emdash and Nimbalyst have this kind of UI. Unfortunately both of them want to manage the state of each worktree group themselves; I'm lookin…

what is the advantage of git worktree vs using a git remote set to a local file upstream.
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