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The utility is not obvious, but I've been using herdr for a few weeks after a friend recommended it, and it's been a great tool.

I had about a dozen different terminal windows, each one with multiple tabs, which was becoming a mess to manage; multiple agents and harnesses running that I could only inspect by remote access/VNC away from home.

With this, I can keep things more organized (project workspaces, tabs), because it's backed by a persistent process, I can ssh into the machine, with tailscale, run herdr and see all active sessions, do some debugging and one-off prompts.

Even better, I can do that from my phone and iPad using Prompt/Termius. It gives me the best part of 'xxclaw' harnesses with none of the complexity.

Couldn't you just use tmux for the remote access?

Short version, yes, but herdr is more mouse / touch friendly in my experience. I was using tmux for my mobile access before and after tweaking things it worked well, but herdr worked out of the box for me.

Does herdr with termius on android support touch/tap operation? I tried herdr on mac, it works really great. But i tried access it via termius from my android, I can't tap/interact with it. Am i missing something?

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