herdr

herdr is a skill for Claude Code from vanducng/skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,694 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for controlling Herdr, a terminal multiplexer that organises coding-agent sessions into workspaces, tabs, and panes. It can inspect the running sessions and send commands to their panes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to name panes, inspect agent status and output, and control processes in an existing Herdr session when HERDRENV is enabled.
Why use it?
It gives you one way to monitor and control several visible agent terminals without losing track of where each process is running.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the vd plugin — 80 skills, 14 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to name panes, inspect agent status and output, and control processes in an existing Herdr session when HERDRENV is enabled.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vanducng/skills/herdr
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vanducng/skills --skill herdr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanducng/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 14 agents.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,694 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.02694
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00269

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3d67b6edffec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

herdr scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/herdr/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Herdr

Herdr is a terminal multiplexer and runtime for coding agents. It organizes terminals into workspaces, tabs, and panes, detects agent identity and status, and exposes the running session through the herdr CLI.

This skill adapts the official Herdr agent skill to the vd: workflow. The installed CLI remains authoritative when its syntax differs from this file; herdr --skill (0.8.0+) prints the exact skill bundled with the running binary.

Scope and routing

Need Owner
Inspect or control persistent visible panes, processes, output, and agent state vd:herdr
Create an isolated checkout with copied env, ports, installs, and lifecycle hooks vd:worktree
Run a deterministic structured fan-out or pipeline without needing visible panes vd:codex-workflow
Conduct an end-to-end build, review, and ship workflow vd:ultracook

Mentioning Herdr authorizes control of the requested Herdr session. It does not authorize spawning agents, parallel work, new worktrees, merges, deployments, or destructive cleanup. Require the user's explicit request for those actions.

Before issuing any control command, check 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 running session. Use it to inspect neighboring work, create isolated terminal contexts, start agents and commands, read their output, and wait for state changes.

Learn the current CLI

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

herdr --version
herdr --help

Then print the relevant command group by running it without a subcommand:

herdr pane
herdr workspace
herdr worktree
herdr tab
herdr wait
herdr agent
herdr notification
herdr integration
herdr session

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 241 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 3d67b6edffec

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herdr is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanducng/skills (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,694 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.