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ShinyLeftPad • today at 10:10 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> A native home for Claude Code, Codex and every coding agent. Every pixel is a file your agent can change. Close it, they keep working.

First two sentences give zero information what it does. Third one is useful but i think many harnesses do it?

Continuing:

> A new kind of agent workspace. Native and terminal first, with nothing between you and your agents. Every part of it is a plain folder your agent can rewrite, and every agent keeps running when the window is gone.

Okay, more of the same. Let's press on.

> Your agents run agents. And hear back.

> An agent hands work to helpers and keeps going. When they finish, their reports land in its input. No copy-paste between windows: herdr-core carries the messages.

Are there modern harnesses that don't do subagents/subthreads/whatever the same way?

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There are some interesting bits but the vibed copy is for me offputting and a sign even the author might not understand what he made.


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gb2d_hn • today at 10:25 AM

Yeah that copy is pretty bad. My understanding (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but the herdr native app is an improvement over the existing TUI multiplexer, with a new API for facilitating comms between agents. Herdr is really useful if you've not tried it. I'll be giving this a go (I hadn't really been using agent comms between panes anyway, more just for workspace navigation). Seems you can think of herdr as a 'harness for your harnesses'!

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_heimdall • today at 10:51 AM

It does read a bit like Claude was wondering around homeless in a foreign land and now has a native home. Good for him I suppose, immigration is not a fun process these days.

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