Herdr Desktop App Brings Terminal Workspaces and Agent Management

Herdr is a new native desktop application that organizes terminal work through named spaces containing tabs and panes. Developers can manage multiple terminal sessions alongside monitoring panels, with the ability to keep terminals running in the background even after closing the window. The app includes an agents sidebar that displays the status of running workers—whether they’re actively processing, blocked waiting for input, completed, or idle.

The platform supports remote work by integrating SSH machines, allowing spaces and their terminals to execute on external systems while remaining accessible from the local interface. The interface itself is customizable through layouts and mods—small JavaScript programs that control how windows, panels, and commands are rendered. When the local application closes, remote terminals continue running as long as the remote machine and core remain operational.

Herdr is available as native applications for macOS (both Apple Silicon and Intel via source build), Linux (x86-64 and ARM64), and Windows (x64 with PowerShell). The project is open-source, built with Rust and Zig, and distributed through platform-specific installers that also handle the core component dependencies.