Shepherd Terminal

hmm how does this compare to Herdr lol 🤔

the "sessions stay alive when the app closes" part is the thing I'd actually want, I've lost track of a long-running agent more than once because I closed the wrong terminal tab by accident. curious about the remote/SSH case though - if the connection drops mid-way through an agent actually writing or editing a file on the remote machine, does Shepherd just resume watching the same process, or is there a chance the agent's action gets cut off and you come back to a half-written file. that's the scenario that'd make or break trusting this for anything longer than a quick task

@kojunseo The part I'd want scoped is agents understanding and controlling the Shepherd session itself. If an agent in one pane can read and drive the workspace, can it see or act on a sibling agent's pane, or is each session's control surface limited to its own tab?

If you run into any issues, have questions, or need help getting started, please leave a comment here. I’ll be around all day and would love to hear your feedback!

what did testing 200+ prompts teach you about product research?

This feels built around how people actually use coding agents now.

I can already see this saving me from terminal window chaos.

@kojunseo Git history beside the agent context makes a lot of sense.

Hi Product Hunt 👋I built Shepherd because running multiple coding agents quickly became harder to manage than the code itself. Codex and Claude were spread across terminal windows, and I kept losing track of which agent was working, waiting for input, or already finished.Shepherd is a persistent macOS workspace designed around coding agents:- Run Codex and Claude across tabs, panes, and remote machines- Keep terminal sessions alive even after closing the app- Monitor every agent’s status in real time- Let agents understand and control the current Shepherd workspace- Open connected browser reviews from an agent and return your visual annotations as structured feedback- Resume previous agent sessions and inspect their files, diffs, and Git history- Connect to remote development machines over SSH and access their terminals, files, and local services- Provide local STT model to vibe-code using your own voiceThe macOS app is available today for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. I’m also building an iOS companion for monitoring agents, receiving completion or attention alerts, give feedback to agent, control a terminal and reconnecting when away from the Mac.I’d especially appreciate feedback on the agent-monitoring experience and whether Shepherd makes parallel agent work easier to follow. This is Shepherd’s first public beta, so you may encounter bugs or rough edges. I’ll keep fixing them and exploring better ways to connect coding agents with Shepherd Terminal. Please try it, use it in your real workflow, and leave plenty of comments if you run into a problem or have an idea. Your feedback will directly shape what I build next. Thank you!Thanks for trying it!