Herdr 0.9 lets one TUI control agents across many machines
Connecting the Machines
Herdr, the terminal multiplexer for agents, hits 0.9 with multi-machine support. Now you can attach a remote machine over SSH and see its workspaces, tabs, and agents alongside your local ones in the same TUI. The client renders the outer UI, while each server keeps running its own sessions. This release paves the way for cross-machine agent collaboration and a future Herdr Cloud service.
I wanted the client to bring those machines together, while each server kept running its own terminals and agents.
- theptip
It’s a good feature. However I am not convinced that the terminal/ssh abstraction will remain optimal when you orchestrate a swarm of workers across multiple machines.
Running via ssh is great when your machines are pets that have local state. I don’t find it to be that useful when I have more than two machines that I’m load balancing agent sessions across.
Just for example, a nice feature from the Codex app; if you edit a markdown file on your remote, and click on the link to the edited .md file, it just opens the file in the local app, and you can view the rendered form too. If I’m working on my local machine this isn’t a win vs. opening the file in Obsidian / IDE. But it’s way easier than manually viewing the file over SSH (unless you just want to look at the raw text version). Similar applies to html files.
I think it’s more likely the Fly Sprites or Claude/Codex sandbox model will win as we move to swarms. If I’m not watching the actual harness output, there’s not a great reason to attach a pty.
- bigcat12345678
Makes sense.
I had always been curious on why Tailscale hasn't creating agent-oriented features. It's obvious to me that Tailscale is at the best position (AFAIK) to capitalize on agents demand.
Their connectivity product is unique. And it's a natural fit to connecting long-running agents instance across the Internet.
- bibstha
Worth giving onorca.dev a try. That already supports this with nice UI.
Also atcyrus.com is interesting to delegate tasks too.
- evanpurkhiser
I’ve been running codex’s remote app server as a systemd service for the last several months, and before that opencode remote. It’s very easy to switch between my phone and desktop app.
I haven’t tried herdr yet, but maybe it’s just not targeted at me?
The real problem I have with the remote codex setup is when it needs to authenticate as me. I sort of solved this for sudo and ssh with this [1], but I think something like this could be integrated deeper into the harness
- kelvinjps10
It would be good if they released a good mobile app I'm have been using termux and moshi and claude code. Termux and moshi provide the full functionality of the terminal but it gets clunky sometimes and with claude code you don't get the full functionality and a lot of stuff are missing from the tui