Herdr vs TermStation

Herdr is a background runtime for keeping coding agents’ terminal sessions available when you move between machines. It brings workspaces, tabs, panes, and agents into one terminal interface, with status labels that distinguish working, blocked, and idle agents. Herdr says it detects 22 agent command-line tools out of the box, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok, Copilot, and Hermes. Panes and processes continue running when a client detaches, and saved layouts can be restored after a server restart. Integrations can report session identities for resuming after a restart, and some also report agent state. You can add SSH-accessible machines and view their workspaces alongside local ones. The runtime includes a local socket API and CLI for scripts, tools, and agents. It is free under the Apache License 2.0 and runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Pane screen history is off by default because terminal output may include sensitive information. Herdr Cloud is described as coming soon.

TermStation is a web-based terminal session manager with an API for organizing sessions across multiple machines. Configurable templates set CLI commands and arguments, then shape the forms used to create sessions. Session and workspace scratch pads, session links, and file generation with macros and includes support day-to-day work. It can launch commands in containers and route HTTP access to web servers in those containers through a reverse tunnel. Multiple users can work with role-based access and share sessions. Configurable code-forge integrations include GitHub by default; the maker also demonstrates installing Claude, Codex, and Cursor in a container. TermStation is open source under the MIT license and free. It is marked pre-alpha and not ready for general distribution. Backend requirements include Ubuntu 22.04+ or Rocky Linux 10+, Node.js 22+, and Docker or Podman. Authentication exists, but the maker says it is not hardened for untrusted networks and advises against public exposure. Session data must be deleted manually until automatic cleanup is implemented.