I hate to be that guy, but why would I use this over tmux? All of the features and qualities noted in the readme do not feel novel or unique.
patriceckhart•44m ago
True. The features arent groundbreaking.
But fair question. If tmux already fits your workflow, there may be no reason to switch. hrdx is more opinionated around running multiple coding agents across projects: it provides a workspace and pane sidebar, agent activity and completion status, built-in launch/resume flows, persistent sessions and layouts, and an external control API. The tradeoff is that it is much younger and less configurable than tmux.
Try it, play around with it, love it or hate it :-)
This looks nice. But I'm curious -- you're clearly inspired by https://herdr.dev (me too) but you must have had some reason to build your own version. So what's unique or what did you want to change?
patriceckhart•27m ago
Yes, absolutely inspired by herdr. The main reason I built hrdx was that I wanted to explore the idea in Go and shape it around my own workflow. I focused on persistent PTY sessions, workspace and Git branch organization, agent activity indicators, custom agent harnesses, and a socket API for external automation. There is definitely overlap, and I'm not claiming the underlying idea is unique. It is mostly my own take on the same problem.
airlocksoftware•21m ago
Yeah, I've got a lot of tooling in Go and have been building some workflows on top of herdr, so a Go version of the same concept is a bit nicer to work with for me. I'll have to play with it a bit more later. Which PTY are you using?
whalesalad•1h ago
patriceckhart•44m ago
But fair question. If tmux already fits your workflow, there may be no reason to switch. hrdx is more opinionated around running multiple coding agents across projects: it provides a workspace and pane sidebar, agent activity and completion status, built-in launch/resume flows, persistent sessions and layouts, and an external control API. The tradeoff is that it is much younger and less configurable than tmux.
Try it, play around with it, love it or hate it :-)
nzoschke•37m ago