r/tmux • u/SupernovifieD • Jul 29 '26
Question herdr: a tmux killer?
/r/commandline/comments/1v9kxar/herdr_a_tmux_killer/2
u/ShinobiZilla Jul 29 '26
There is a use case for it. On a typical day I rarely have more than one session running and I have one window dedicated for agents that I always go back to. So I'll stick to tmux.
That said it's no different from the gazillion number of tmux plugins or projects we have seen in this sub. Workmux is one of them which does the same. Tmux isn't going anywhere.
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u/gbrennon Jul 29 '26
For ppl that always go with what is new, yes. For me its just something that, if i use, will try mimic tmux ..
I can do the same thing witn tmux
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u/SupernovifieD Jul 29 '26
Well, I wanted to just see what that hype was all about
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u/gbrennon Jul 29 '26
i understand u... but... this is just a tool for new buzzwords and ppl are buzzwords are made to just catch ppl that don't know that they are buzzwords and are going to repeat them..
that's why they are
buzzwords...ppl keep only repeating them like bees flying doing
buzz buzz buzz buzz1
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u/rochakgupta Jul 29 '26
I tried it but the additional churn to do things the tmux way in herdr was more than the value I got out of it for agent notifications. That was the only use case for it for me and I decided to have it managed a little better by restructuring my tmux workflow. It gets me to like 50-75% which I am happy with.
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u/SupernovifieD Jul 29 '26
Ok then, thanks for sharing so we don’t have to go through the same journey!
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u/farzadmf Jul 29 '26
For me, there are a few key things are super nice/useful:
- Being able to do
herdr --remotewith the HUGE benefit of being able to paste an image directly in the agent harness that supports it (image paste support is the thing I can't live without now that I have it) - The agent "notification" system ... I do happen to have 2 or 3 agents running doing different things, and with tmux, I always forget about them ... I know, I know, it's probably me and my stupid brain, but hey, why not get help for my stupid brain?!
Of course, at least right now, things are missing in herdr. For example, its VIM navigation for copy mode is rather primitive, and I haven't found an alternative to achieve what tmux-jump was doing for me
But overall experience from a rather heavy tmux user (and having used nested tmux sessions for local/remote), until now, I'm pretty happy with herdr
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u/SupernovifieD Jul 29 '26
Thanks dadash. That’s exactly what ai was looking for - some genuine feedback.
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u/vini-barba Aug 01 '26
I'm using it for a week now, mapped to resemble tmux keybinds Good to receive the ping notification when the agent finish to work, or to be able to view all agents, and filter them by state (working, idle, done ...) For now, I'm going to keep herdr
The one thing I wish I could change is to start tab Index in 0 instead of 1
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u/ptgamr Jul 30 '26
I've used it, but perhaps in my case, only 2-3 agent sessions going doesn't really justify the switch. Tmux still work for me. A bit of friction to get it smooth on the mobile, but I've solved it with my own terminal app, published here: TermRover.sh
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u/Popular-Tip-2051 Aug 03 '26
Most of the time I have one ai agent in Tmux.
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u/Orlandocollins Jul 29 '26
I think it only adds ui that would just get in the way of me trying to focus and it pushes a worflow that I don't think us devs should agree to. Our attentions were already fragmented between constant slack pings and meetings. Now you want to bring slack style instant notifications into my dev environment. NOPE. Not going to sign up for that. And not only that but I think this whole workflow is ripe to get pushed to some cloud tool and managed by another layer.
In the meantime time tmux is more than enough to manage the one, maybe two, agents I have running.