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Herdr Skills — Setup Guide

Source: herdrdev/herdr GitHub: herdrdev/herdr Skills: 5 skills · 28.1K total installs Category: Terminal Orchestration First Seen: catalogued August 17, 2026 sweep (herdr on skills.sh since April 7, 2026) Quality Tier: 🟢 Production — Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, Snyk Pass (3/3)

Herdr organizes terminals into workspaces, tabs, and panes, recognizes coding agents running inside panes, and exposes the current session through the herdr CLI. An agent running inside a Herdr pane can inspect neighboring work, create layouts, start commands, and wait for state changes — turning a pile of terminals into one queryable session.

Installation

npx skills add herdrdev/herdr

Individual skills install with the explicit repo form:

npx skills add https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr --skill herdr

Prerequisites

Requirement Details
Herdr runtime The herdr CLI manages panes; the skill verifies it is running inside a managed pane
Environment check Skill refuses to act unless test "${HERDR_ENV:-}" = 1 passes

What It Provides

Skill Installs Purpose
herdr 27.6K Core session control: inspect neighboring panes, create layout, start agents/commands, read output, wait for state
herdr-pre-release-audit 160 Pre-release audit workflow
herdr-throwaway-repro 151 Throwaway reproduction environments
triage 146 Issue triage workflow
writing-commit-messages 17 Commit-message drafting

The core skill treats the installed herdr binary as the authority for command syntax — it learns the current CLI before issuing control commands, and refuses to inspect or control sessions from outside a Herdr-managed pane.

Quick Start

  1. Install: npx skills add herdrdev/herdr
  2. Open a Herdr-managed pane, then ask: "inspect the other panes and summarize what's running"
  3. For agent orchestration: ask the agent to start a command in a new tab and wait for completion

CorpusIQ Use Cases

Use Case How
Multi-agent sessions One pane per agent, with each able to see its neighbors through herdr — matches our multi-agent workflow patterns
Spark terminal hygiene Workspace/tab structure for the DGX Spark's long-lived terminal sessions
Sub-agent supervision Inspect what a background agent is doing without joining its pane

Limitations / Verification

  • Security audits on herdr: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass, Snyk Pass — clean across all three
  • Publisher-page install counts verified (27.6K + 160 + 151 + 146 + 17 = 28.1K); GitHub 29.7K stars on the repo
  • Skill is inert outside Herdr-managed panes by design — the HERDR_ENV check blocks out-of-session control
  • Companion skills are early content (sub-200 installs each)
npx skills add herdrdev/herdr   # verify install works

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