Herdr

Crystl's guide to tmux and Claude Code covers named sessions, send-keys scripting and capture-pane screen reads. Then it lists the limits: no real completion signal, brittle screen scraping, nothing surviving a reboot.

HN's reaction was that nearly every top-level comment was someone who had built their own replacement.

Herdr gives each agent a real terminal, tracks its state without configuration, and exposes a Unix-socket API so agents can orchestrate their own workspaces. It detects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and 10+ others by process matching.

A high-karma user described replacing a dozen terminal windows of agents he could only inspect by VNC, now reachable from his phone over Tailscale. The recurring counter: 'Just use tmux no?'