Herdr Crash Course — Step-by-Step Setup
In this video, I take a quick tour of Herdr, a terminal multiplexer built for running AI agents. It lets you run multiple agents in parallel across workspaces, tabs, and panes, keeps them running as background processes even when you close the app or your laptop, and can connect to a VPS so your agents keep working remotely. At the end, I show how to use an agent with the official Herdr skill to control the multiplexer itself via its CLI API. ## What You'll Learn - Installing Herdr and organizing workspaces, tabs, and panes - How the prefix-key system and multiplexer architecture work - Running Herdr locally so agents survive closing the app - Connecting to a VPS with `herdr --remote` for zero-latency remote control - Letting an agent create sessions and tabs through the Herdr CLI skill ## 🔗 Links - Herdr: https://herdr.dev - Tau agent: https://github.com/huggingface/tau - My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/ ## ⏱️ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:20 Installing Herdr & quick tour 2:43 Workspaces, tabs and panes 3:37 Agent detection and tracking 5:37 Agents survive closing the app 6:20 What is a terminal multiplexer? 7:28 How prefix keys work 8:59 Settings, themes and notifications 10:34 Detach and reattach locally 11:14 Herdr on a VPS 12:03 Zero-latency remote mode 13:16 Controlling Herdr with an agent 14:11 Tau: agents with local models 16:21 Outro ## 👋 Connect with me - My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/ - X (Twitter): https://x.com/_alejandroao - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-ao
