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Herder is a tmux alternative with a sidebar that shows agent status (blocked, running, done) — you instantly see what needs your attention.

Scott explains that Herder's killer feature is a sidebar reporting the real-time status of all coding agents, eliminating the need to tab through sessions to check on them. ✦ AI generated

Scott Tolinski · Syntax · 2026-07-22 · original ↗

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Herder has this unique little sidebar that reports the status of any of your agents in any coding agent platform, whether that is even like Hermes or open code or Pi or anything, it it shows you the status. So, whether that is blocked, so if it needs your attention, maybe it needs approval for something or it's running or it's done or it's just, you know, just sitting there, you always can look at the sidebar and instantly see is there something that needs my attention?

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22:21there and all your stuff is exactly where you want it. Um the benefits for herder over tmux is that herder has this unique little sidebar that reports the status of any of your agents in any coding agent platform, whether that is even like Hermes or open code or Pi or anything, it it shows you the status. So, whether that is blocked, so if it needs your attention, maybe it needs

22:52approval for something or it's running or it's done or it's just, you know, just sitting there, you always can look at the sidebar and instantly see is there something that needs my attention? Before Herder, I was ding tab into different Oh, man. I'm just tab into different browsers and being like is it does it need my attention? Oh, this one didn't start because it needs my attention. This thing has made that so

23:17much stinking better. It's just the best. I love Herder. >> I Warp Terminal has had like the agent status uh for a while. So, I I I quite like that, but I've been using Herder for only about a day now since Scott was telling me about it. I've been using tmux for about a month since we've had Ben on and I absolutely love it because it makes

23:40uh having multiple like terminals open and having your agent be able to do it cuz often like a lot of people's process might be this. Like you say, "Okay, I want you to do something." For example, I have this little NFC reader right here and I want to be able to like read and write from this NFC reader, right? And And to do that, it's a it's a terminal

24:05process called PM3. Um and I don't like being like, "Can you just do this?" And then you don't get you don't get insights into it. What I like to do is have one terminal open with the actual process and then another one open with my agent and I can tell the agent to do things and it will run it in that other one. So, watch here. I

24:24can say say like, "Scan the card." There. And what it will do is it will just tell the other terminal. Here we go, HF search. And now it's it's running that search. It's running against the hardware on my desk right now and and bringing back the information. I absolutely love that about tmux and I just didn't The thing I didn't like about tmux is that you can't just like

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