Herdr: the Tmux for AI Agents

Herdr is a terminal multiplexer built for AI coding agents — basically tmux for agents. In this video, I walk through how Herdr helps solve one of the biggest AI coding workflow problems: running long coding sessions, detaching, walking away, and coming back later without losing your work.

Herdr gives you persistent terminal sessions, workspaces, panes, tabs, keyboard shortcuts, mouse-friendly TUI controls, remote SSH sessions, and built-in agent status tracking for tools like Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents. It also exposes CLI commands through a Unix socket, making it possible to use Herdr as an agent orchestration layer for spawning and managing multiple AI agents inside the same terminal session.

In this video, I cover:

- What Herdr is and why it feels like “tmux for agents”
- How Herdr compares to tmux and Cmux
- Persistent terminal sessions for long-running AI coding tasks
- Workspaces, panes, tabs, splits, and keyboard shortcuts
- Agent status updates, blocker notifications, and macOS alerts
- Remote Herdr sessions over SSH
- Using the Herdr CLI for agent orchestration
- Spinning up multiple Claude Code / Codex instances from inside Herdr
- Current limitations, bugs, and tradeoffs

Herdr is especially useful if you use AI coding agents and want a better way to manage long-running sessions across your local machine, laptop, server, or remote Ubuntu box.

Links:
herdr: https://herdr.dev/
herdr GitHub: https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr
My video on cmux: https://youtu.be/IhoFCQbZF7k?si=Rvi_OnCW2DqV29Dt

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