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¶

Install: npx skills add herdrdev/herdr
Open a Herdr-managed pane, then ask: "inspect the other panes and summarize what's running"
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

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

CorpusIQ is the connector layer that lets AI assistants read the systems a business already runs on - accounting, payments, CRM, email, files and analytics - and answer with the source named. It is read-only by design: it retrieves data and never writes to, or acts in, a connected system, which is what makes it safe to point at live accounts.

This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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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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