Keep coding-agent terminals organised and persistent with herdr’s background runtime.
herdr is a runtime for coding agents that already run in a terminal. It owns the terminal sessions and keeps them organised inside a background server, rather than replacing the agent with another coding model. The goal is to make several ongoing development tasks easier to follow without keeping every client window attached.
The official site describes workspaces containing agent panes and ordinary development processes. Closing a client or losing its network connection does not itself end the server-side session. After a machine restart, herdr restores the layout and resumes supported sessions; that is different from a process continuing to execute while its host is powered off.
Status detection identifies agents as working, blocked or idle. A developer can use that overview to find the session needing an answer instead of inspecting every pane manually. Long-running jobs and development servers can remain visible alongside agent activity.
The CLI and socket API expose the same control surface used by agents. They can manage panes and coordinate supported sessions through structured operations. The project advertises compatibility with existing clients such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode on macOS, Linux and Windows.
Those integrations do not include the underlying model subscriptions automatically. Credentials, agent permissions and execution costs remain relevant to the tools running inside the terminals.
Start with a noncritical repository and one familiar agent. Verify reconnection, status reporting and restart behaviour before depending on unattended work. Keep normal code review and command-approval practices in place, because organising an agent’s terminal does not establish that its changes are correct or authorised.
