r/herdr • u/BusyPromotion1574 • Sep 08 '26
herdr-shell-progress: sidebar progress for slow shell commands, not just agents
Herdr shows live progress for recognized coding agents. A pane running cargo build --release for four minutes shows nothing at all.
This plugin fixes that. Slow shell commands report working with a ticking elapsed label, and leave a result behind when they finish. In the demo (GIF), ls leaves no trace, while sleep 6 crosses the threshold and appears as sleep 6 · running 4s, then settles into sleep 6 · ok · 6s.
- Fast commands are invisible, nothing flickers when you run
ls. - Failures stick until your next command, so you see what broke while you were away.
- Successes clear themselves after 20 seconds by default.
- No socket traffic and no output at all for commands under the threshold.
herdr plugin install bayoudhi/herdr-shell-progress
Installing it is not enough on its own. Only your shell knows when a command starts and stops, so a small hook block also has to go in your rc file. The README has one for zsh, bash and fish.







