Herdr: One terminal to rule them all • Hacker News Board

I've been using tmux for several years and I just tried this and I'm pleasantly surprised! I definitely see myself using this as my goto. Couple of questions:

- Do you plan to support viewing file-diffs for the cwd? Currently I keep zed / vscode open on the side to view diffs. It would be great if we could fold those into herdr as well

- Is there an easy way to reconfigure the prefix? For tmux i've been using ` for years now, so going back to ctrl+z is a bit of a struggle

Great execution btw, congrats!

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by nijave » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

pfannkuchen wrote: post #128

nijave wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone does that. Some random startup "We're used by Google!". More often than not some random engineer signed up for a trial or some tiny department somewhere is using it for some internal thing

It’s such a tiny hop from there to “has a friend at Google who used it once as a favor”. I hadn’t even considered that people would do such a thing!

I didn't realize the prevalence until I worked at a company trying to get enterprise market share desperate to "add logos" (the customers were always referred to as "logos" if that tells you anything)

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by lofaszvanitt » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC

Why is this a thing? Claude and other clis already implemented everything that average joes published under foss into their client. So why 12 terminal windows when the cli does it itself?

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by vantassell » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 9:09 PM UTC

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…

> I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection.

Oh wow, that's bad. Copy/paste between terminals is a significant part of my workflow.

Do you know if that's specific to wezterm (my daily terminal emulator) or applicable to any terminal emulator that's using Herdr?

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by orliesaurus » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

nlh wrote: post #58

orliesaurus wrote: post #49

I cant figure out how to make subagents work with herdr, tried to email the maintainer and got no reply back (yet) - has anyone figured it out?

Can you elaborate a bit on what you're trying to get to work?

if I have claude code spawn sub-agents to do a task, shouldnt they show up in the sidebar?

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by johntash » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

obmelvin wrote: post #29

graypegg wrote: post #22

> Popular with engineers from... (bunch of logos) > Individual engineers, not company endorsements. Bold haha. Maybe that's fine with the disclaimer, but feels like lawyer-bait.

I've seen a lot of companies list logos if just a single engineer or team is using the product.

how do OSS projects even know unless that single engineer tells them or opens a github/etc issue or something like that?

Re: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

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Post by monk_grilla » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC

nijave wrote: post #42

linsomniac wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The primary benefit I've gotten over just a straight tmux session is that there is a collapsable left "tab" bar that shows you your different workspaces, which you can relabel, and below that is a list of the agents you are running (claude code, codex, etc) along with their status (idle, blocked, working). So I will start a workspace for each different thing I'm working on, label it "Studio Shed Packet", "Teapot game…

You can rename the tabs in tmux but not sure if there's a way to do dynamic status (I suspect there is but it's probably non trivial to get it to play nice with the harness)

You can do this. In my current tmux session I have four windows each with a status indicator that shows up when that window is running a claude code session. It is a blue animated braille spinner when it is working, a red dot when it needs attention and a green tick when it is finished with its work.

Claude code exposes a bunch of hooks you can use to have tmux commands execute. This is invaluable if you are multi-tasking and need to see at a glance what needs attention.