herdrm launched today, and it fills a gap that's been quietly widening for months: a native macOS desktop app for managing multiple coding agents across multiple machines.
Built atop herdr (the terminal workspace manager for agents), herdrm gives you a sidebar of every agent on every device — local or remote over SSH — with live status indicators, a real PTY terminal, system notifications when an agent needs attention, and a ⌘K palette that searches across everything. It's built in Swift with Sparkle auto-updates and ships as a signed, notarized .app.
The detail that tells you this was built by people who actually use these tools: the "New Agent" picker only offers CLIs actually installed on the target device, and automatically enables each agent's own bypass-permissions flag (--dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude, etc.). Little things that hint at real dogfooding.
This is the flip side of the agent explosion we've been tracking. We've seen the infrastructure layer (herdr itself, the runtime), the orchestration layer (Cumora, Sprix SAGE), and the agent-to-agent protocol (A2A). What's been missing is the desktop experience — the window you keep open to see what your agents are doing right now. herdrm is the first native entry in that category, and it won't be the last.
The pattern is clear: as agents proliferate across devices, the developer's desktop becomes a command center. Not a browser tab, not a terminal multiplexer — a purpose-built native app that treats agents as first-class citizens of the operating system.
Available now via brew install owo-network/brew/herdrm or as a direct download from GitHub.
- herdrm on GitHub
- herdr — Terminal Workspace Manager for Coding Agents
- Show HN: Deploy apps with agents, no humans required (context: agent-native tools trend)