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# 🚀 herdr Agent Guidelines

[**herdr**](https://herdr.dev/) ([GitHub](https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr)) is a terminal-native agent multiplexer — like `tmux` but agent-aware. It gives you workspaces, tabs, and panes, each running its own shell, agent, server, or log stream, and tracks agent status automatically.

## Key Concepts

- **Workspaces** — Project contexts, each with one or more tabs

- **Tabs** — Subcontexts inside a workspace, each with one or more panes

- **Panes** — Terminal splits running a shell, agent, server, or log stream

- **Agent Status** — Detected automatically: `idle`, `working`, `blocked`, `done`, `unknown`

## Configuration

## Token Efficiency

- Keep responses concise and actionable; lead with conclusions, file paths, and verification.

- Scope searches and file reads to the task. Limit command output with filters and line ranges.

- Use `~/.local/bin/rtk` for supported shell commands when available; bypass it with `RTK_DISABLED=1` when raw output is required.

- Prefer `codebase-memory-mcp` graph tools for structural code discovery when available.

- Load supplemental guidance only when the task requires it. Start a fresh session when switching to unrelated work.

## Learning Recording

Read `~/.ai-tools/MEMORY.md` and `~/.ai-tools/agent-memory.md` only when deciding whether or where to persist a learning.

After fixing a bug (confirmed by human), introducing a new tech choice, or encountering something important, ask the user:

> "Would you like me to record this as a learning?"

If yes:

- **qmd** (durable) — project-specific gotchas, architecture decisions, conventions

- **agentmemory** (session) — transient context only the current session needs

- User config: `~/.config/herdr/config.toml` (generate defaults with `herdr --default-config`)

- Agent detection overrides: `~/.config/herdr/agent-detection/<agent>.toml`

- Changes require reload: `herdr server reload-config` or the global menu

## Integrations

Herdr installs integrations for detected coding agents to enable session restoration and richer state tracking:

```bash

herdr integration install claude # Claude Code

herdr integration install codex # OpenAI Codex CLI

herdr integration install copilot # GitHub Copilot CLI

herdr integration status # Check installed integrations

```

## Agent Skill

The official agent skill file (`SKILL.md`) teaches agents how to control herdr from inside a herdr-managed pane. Install it from the upstream source of truth:

- Docs: https://herdr.dev/docs/agent-skill/

- Source: https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr/blob/master/SKILL.md

For agents with a skill system, install as a skill named `herdr`. The skill activates when `HERDR_ENV=1` is set (agent is running inside a herdr-managed pane).

## Usage

```bash

herdr # Start herdr

herdr pane list # List panes in current workspace

herdr pane split 1-2 --direction right --no-focus # Split a pane

herdr wait agent-status 1-1 --status done --timeout 60000 # Wait for agent

```

See the full [herdr docs](https://herdr.dev/docs/) for details.