Herdr

Herdr is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by herdrdev in herdr.

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Install Herdr

Copy Herdr into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr/tree/master/skills/herdr ~/.claude/skills/herdr

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/herdr/SKILL.md in herdrdev/herdr
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/herdr
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Herdr does

Herdr inspects and controls Herdr-managed terminal panes, tabs, workspaces, and coding agents through the herdr CLI. Use it when the user explicitly mentions Herdr or asks to control a Herdr session, and only when HERDR_ENV=1.

Herdr is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Herdr comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-orchestration, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Herdr

Herdr organizes terminals into workspaces, tabs, and panes, recognizes coding agents running inside panes, and exposes the current session through the herdr CLI.

Before issuing any control command, verify that this agent is running inside a Herdr-managed pane:

test "${HERDR_ENV:-}" = 1

If the check fails, say that you are not running inside Herdr and stop. Do not inspect or control the focused Herdr session from outside Herdr.

When the check passes, the herdr binary in PATH talks to the current session. Use it to inspect neighboring work, create terminal layout, start agents and commands, read output, and wait for state changes.

Learn the current CLI

The installed binary is the authority for command syntax. Start with:

herdr --help

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Herdr

What else does herdrdev publish alongside Herdr?
Herdr is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from herdrdev/herdr, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Herdr Pre-Release Audit, Herdr Throwaway Repro and Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Herdr does, and is maintained by herdrdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the herdrdev/herdr page.
How does Herdr compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Herdr ranks #211 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Herdr against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.