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Herdtrude

A Mac app for running many coding agents across projects and machines, with an iPhone app to keep an eye on the herd.

Role Everything. Product, design, code, brand.
Stack Tauri, Solid, Rust, SwiftUI, on Herdr.
Year 2026

Running Claude Code and Codex across many projects and three machines meant a terminal setup only I could run. Herdtrude puts the same power in a proper Mac window, with the phone in the loop.

Agents that outlive the window

Herdr owns every agent on each machine; the app only shows what Herdr says. Close the app and the agents keep running.

Sessions on two machines, usage in the sidebar.

Every login, every limit

Usage per account and per machine. Costs use ccusage's logic, and token counts matched it on 72 of 72 sessions.

Accounts, with 5-hour and 7-day limits per login.

The fleet in your pocket

The iPhone app talks to each machine over SSH, pairs by QR code, and raises a Live Activity when an agent needs you. No cloud holds the sessions.

Each machine and what's paired to it.

Brand

Aa SF Pro App
Aa SF Mono Code

#07080C
#14161D
#F2EADF
#7FB7BE
#F0C27B

She's the shepherd, your agents are her sheep. Little robot sheep with screen faces show each agent's status. Fjord teal means working.

Herdtrude, the shepherd.

The status sheep.

Result

Mac and Linux builds on a signed release feed.
In daily use on a workstation, a Mac mini, a Linux laptop and a phone.
About 300 tests across Rust and Swift.

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